January 9, 2025 • 30 mins
Ever wondered how small hands can spark big changes? Join us on the Kindness Matters podcast as we share the heartwarming journey of Lisa Korbel, the visionary behind "There's No Place Like Home Daycare" in Owatonna, Minnesota. Lisa, along with her adorable "Kindness Crew" of two to five-year-olds, has been nurturing the power of giving for almost a decade. Discover how a simple project of making fleece tie blankets for a local shelter bloomed into a beautiful tradition of community service, and learn how these young children are instilled with the values of kindness and empathy, leaving a lasting impact on their community.
We shine a light on how Lisa and her little helpers choose who to support, ensuring their acts of kindness reach far and wide. Through the stories of the "Kindness Crew," hear about the legacy of giving that continues even after their time with Lisa. We explore the essential services offered by Community Pathways and the commendable work of the Oak Hills Community Connections, which aims to provide shelter for entire families during tough times. The tales shared underscore the immense difference small communities can make when they come together in support of one another.
Uncover the often overlooked issue of hidden homelessness and the inspiring ways the Owatonna community has rallied together. Despite the hurdles of not having a 501(c)(3) status, hear about the creativity and determination that have led to substantial fundraising efforts, including a concert that raised, after expenses, $16,000. We draw attention to the impactful work of local organizations like Oak Hill's Community Connections, Furnishing Hope, and the Crisis Resource Center. Each story is a testament to the power of compassion and the ripple effects created when neighbors unite in kindness.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, hello there and welcome.
You are listening to theKindness Matters podcast and I
am your host, mike Rathbun.
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enjoy and we'll get into thekindness matters podcast.
Hello and welcome everybody.
Thank you so much for joiningus today and I am so excited to
have you here and I am excitedfor you to meet my guest.
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You know, when we think aboutkindness or big kindness
operations, we don't often thinkof smaller cities, cities in
rural spaces.
You know, when you think of bighonking kindness organizations
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are usually in big cities, right?
But I heard this year last year, depending on when you hear
this about an amazingorganization in Owatonna,
minnesota, and it's a daycare.
It's a freaking daycare run byone of the most incredible human
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beings I have ever had thepleasure to meet.
Her name is Lisa Korbel and Ihave her on with the show today.
Welcome, lisa.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Thanks, Mike.
Thank you for having me welcome, lisa.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Thanks, mike.
Thank you for having me.
Oh, this is so exciting.
I have never seen somebody elseand then reached out to them
and had them on the show, sothis is a first for me.
I just have to have you.
I know that your story is thatgood that, um, I wouldn't take
no for an answer.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, it's worth sharing.
It's worth sharing.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
It absolutely is so the name of your group.
That isn't the name of thedaycare, though, right?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
No, my daycare is called.
There's no Place Like HomeDaycare and we call ourselves
and the things we do for thecommunity.
We.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
We've given ourselves a name the kindness crew you
are indeed, and and when wethink of a crew, we don't think
of necessarily two to five yearolds.
We don't, but that's what youguys are yep, they're the heart
and the soul.
That is so awesome, and thisall started well.
(03:07):
Actually, this year will beyour 10th year doing this right
Correct?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yep, this was our 10th giving season.
We started back in 2015, so wehad given for 10 seasons, but
technically, 2025 is our 10thyear.
How do you?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
count that I know my wife and I have this big, huge
thing about how to count down.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yes, in 2024,.
It was the 10th time of doingsomething, but you know the
seasons, I suppose.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Exactly so.
Your first, the first time thatyou decided to give, was that
2015?
.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
That's correct Yep 2015.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yep, okay, and that changed everything for you.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
That changed, that set the story in motion.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Nice, it did so.
Talk to us about that, tell usabout it.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
So back in 2015, you know the fleece tie blankets
that are real popular, at leastthey were in the early 2000s we
decided, yeah, people love them.
Right, A warm, cozy blanket.
It just does something for you.
It makes you happy, it makesyou feel warm, it makes you feel
loved.
You just wrap yourself in thatand you feel that comfort.
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And we had been talking to thekids Myself had been talking to
the kids about giving.
We had just kind of finishedwith our gratitude and giving
and we said let's do somethingfor the community.
And so we came up with the ideato make tie blankets.
It was something simple wecould do.
The kids could some, some ofthem could help me cut.
We were working on our tying,we got some fine motor skills in
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on there and you know somelearning that went along with it
.
And then I contacted a localorganization in the city of
Owatonna that was called LilySparrow House and at that time
Lily Sparrow House was our womanand children's shelter here in
town and when I spoke with thedirector she had let me know
that there was some families inthere right now and the blankets
we had was full of cars andblues and reds and we thought,
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oh, this may, a little boy maybewould like this.
I don't think it really wouldhave mattered, but we, that's
where we thought.
She said, yep, there's a littleboy here at at the house right
now.
So we concluded for the day.
I sent the kids home.
I went to the home and I knockedon the door and I was met.
I thought maybe it was going tobe the director, but I was met
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with a resident by a resident,and so I explained to her again
who I was, what we were doing,and the woman's eyes immediately
filled with tears, which, ofcourse, and the woman's eyes
immediately filled with tears,which, of course, my eyes
immediately filled with tearsand she told me that she was
currently living in the home andthe blanket was going to be for
her son and that we had thisemotional exchange.
(05:57):
That was absolutely incredible.
And I walked down those stairsand I still get a little
emotional about it today.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I walked down those stairs.
I'm getting emotional justlistening to you tell it and
I've get a little emotionalabout it today.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I walked down those stairs and in my heart I knew
right at that moment like we'regoing to do this.
We're going to do this everysingle year, and I am not going
to be the one that does it all.
I want the kids to be with meevery step of the way, and
that's where it all changed.
And now they are.
They follow me through theentire process of giving.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Yeah, that's so cool.
And I mean, you, you involved.
Well, you, you do you involvethem in every step of the
process, right, yes?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yep, they're there we so, on World Kindness Day, we
announced so, announced, so nowthat we've done this for 10
seasons and we've tried to hit.
Oatan is a really coolcommunity.
We have about a population ofabout 28,000, but we have lots
of services in town that helppeople in need and a lot of
organizations that we have beenable to give to, and so there's
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been fantastic opportunities forus to raise money, to collect
items, to do things, and so theyit starts out where I announce
it, the kids and I kind of telleverybody.
We take the social media, westart telling moms and dads and
grandmas and grandpas, and thenthey start collecting money.
But my families have taken it astep further, which has been
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really cool, and they havedecided to do things like create
things and sell things.
So we've had everything fromdrawings to homemade Christmas
trees to wreaths to hang on yourdoor, cookies to hot chocolate,
and the kids and their parentsassemble these items and then
sell them and give them, give upthe kindness crew all the
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profit.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah done to support the kindness crew exactly,
exactly so cool.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
so then we choose an end date.
So we usually go about inexactly a month or so and then
we I typically reach out to allthe organizations letting them
know hey, you've been chosen bythe kindness crew.
How can we best serve you thisyear?
Do you need a monetary donation?
Do you need some winter gear?
Do you need hygiene supplies?
What can we do that would mostbenefit you at this point in
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your organization?
And so lots of times we'll say,hey, yeah, we could really use
hats and mittens or deodorants.
So the kids and I and theirfamilies will go to the local
Walmart or the local Target andwe'll have a shopping day.
So I give everybody a list andwe walk around.
This year we filled two cartsoverflowing with blankets, soft,
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cuddly blankets.
We had buckets full ofdeodorant and soap and razors
and all kinds of stuff.
The kids take it off theshelves, they put it on the
counter and we pay together as agroup.
So they are really there forthe whole entire experience.
(09:05):
And then this past week weinvite the organizations to come
to my home, to the KindnessCrew home.
Or we have also got a good inwith the bus company of parents.
That is a bus driver and hasgiven us some rides, so we load
up the bus and the moms and dadsand everybody gets on the bus
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and we drive to these places andthe kids get to see what this
year we got to see.
One of the places that we gaveto is an organization that helps
families coming out ofhomelessness or getting their
first apartment and imagine howexciting that is.
But now you don't have a couchor you don't have a table right
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and now you're together as afamily and you want to sit down
and have a meal together at atable, and so this organization
people can donate.
You know, we all get newfurniture and we go what are we?
going to do with this old tableor this, and we think it's to us
maybe no longer has worth, butcould mean so much to another
family.
So they have a really coolwarehouse where they store all
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this stuff and then they allowpeople to come in and at no cost
they can outfit their entirehome or apartment with beds and
couches and tables and chairs,and so the kids got to see that
and that's really really cool,really cool I, you never really
even think about that, right.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
You think, okay, well , they were unhoused and then
they were housed and and that'sthe end of the story, and you
don't think about all of thelittle things that go into that
right exactly right, wow.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
So yeah, they got to see.
You know from the beginning,right, exactly, right, wow.
So, yeah, they got to see, youknow, from the beginning to the
end, and it's so fun just towatch their little faces handing
over a check or handing over.
This year we filled buckets ofthings, of hats and mittens and
stuff, and just for the kids tohave that experience, I think,
(11:04):
yeah, it's pretty incredible andI I guess my whole hope is that
they don't forget that feeling,because there's there's
something about giving thatfills us too, that fills our
hearts too, and I hope theynever, ever, forget that feeling
, because then they're going towant to keep doing it right,
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even when they leave this place.
They're going to want to keepgiving, keep helping this place.
They're going to want to keepgiving, keep helping, keep
showing up keep extendingthemselves.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
So if you could, could you talk to me about what
goes into the process ofchoosing the beneficiaries of
your giving for a particularseason?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
So we have our community, I would say, has our
different things listed on awebsite.
When you want to come to youknow, the Chamber of Commerce
has a list of our nonprofits.
Our United Way has a list ofnonprofits and I typically go on
and say I just started kind ofat the beginning years ago and
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said let's try and let's see howmany we can hit over the next
10 years, you know, and how manywe can hit.
Sometimes we give more than toone community pathways.
I would describe it's our foodshelf, but it's kind of a hub in
our community for a lot ofdifferent things.
There's a lot of resources thatpeople can get there.
There's they have an area whereyou can get clothing, you can
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get your food, you can get yourhygiene products.
There is an entity in therethat offers dental care to
children.
Transitional housing is anentity that is within the
community pathways buildingwhere it allows people who are
on the margins that need whetherit's rent, assistance, whether
they need to be housed, ifthey're escaping violence.
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It's a place where people cancome and they can access all of
those things at the same time.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
and get set up for successes.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
That would definitely be worth a second donation or a
second?
Yeah, so a lot of times we givethem.
You know they always kind ofget added in.
On this year we did a bunch ofhats and mittens and some
hygiene products, and so thenthey said that this is the time
of the year those things are.
You know, it's getting colder,people need those hats and those
mittens, the weather's changingand so those are those things
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that they always are in need of.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Oh for sure.
And you talked about hopingthat the kids kind of kept this
feeling of giving with them asthey grew up.
When we were talking, you had acouple of instances where
you've run into some kids thatwere part of the kindness crew
with you.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Yes, yeah, and they were lovely In fact yeah, I, I
in fact, yeah, oh yeah, In fact,on Tuesday, when we did our
delivery, we I welcome backanybody that's ever been part of
a kind of the kindness crew,Cause you don't, your membership
doesn't cease when you walk outthe door, it continues forever.
And, uh, I've invited familiesalong.
Hey, if invited families along,hey, if you want to come along
for this delivery or whatever.
(14:08):
In fact, those families didprojects this year and raised
money and handed me checks for afew hundred dollars.
So it was pretty cool.
I was delivering to a school.
We were able to gift all theschools a bucket full of hats
and mittens and scarves, everysingle school in our district
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and then the two districts thatare the closest to us.
And I walked in the hall andthe little boy.
All of a sudden I hear Lisa,Lisa.
I'm looking around like well,who knows me?
Oh, yep, it was a boy that he'sa third grader now and he's
like that was my daycare.
That was Lisa, he's telling allhis buddies.
So yeah, I mean, I think they'reremembering, I hope they're
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remembering.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
That's so cool.
Well, clearly, they do.
I mean that's got to be a hugepart of their core memories.
Now, when I was a kid, we werethe kindness crew.
Yes, yeah, we helped.
That's so cool it is.
It's so cool.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
It is, it's really cool.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
So talk to me about okay.
Now you've also worked withhomeless kids.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Nope, nope, not me.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Oak Hills Community Center.
That is, we were talking aboutthat.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Yep, oak Hills is.
It has not come yet to Owatonna.
It is in the works.
Sorry, yep, Oak Hills is.
It has not come yet to Owatonna.
It is in the works.
Sorry, yep, that's okay, itwill be.
You know, I don't know whattheir target date for opening is
.
I serve on a board calledTransitional Housing here in
Owatonna and we will probably bedoing a lot of work with them.
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Work with them, oak HillsCommunity Connections is trying
to fill a gap in our communitiesnot just our community, but
other communities as well andthat is placement for families.
We find that there are women inchildren's shelters, we find
that there are shelters servingmen, but there are not shelters
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serving men with children orfamilies, and so their goal is
to have a facility that would beable to accommodate entire
families that want to staytogether, want to be together,
want to live together.
Of course, that's where youwant to be is with your family,
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and so that is their hope thatwe will have a facility that
would be able to accommodatequite a few families.
So it'd be wonderful.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Yeah, that would be amazing.
Why do you suppose it is thatthey there's one for men and
there's one for women andchildren, but no mix.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Well, and I think you know, I think women and
children kids are often and staywith mom.
Yeah, that ends up being thething.
Our men's shelter is oftenutilized by men coming out of
hardships, rehab, you know where.
Maybe it's not as safe as anenvironment for children to be
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in and I don't know.
I think things are changing.
You know we, you know we'retrying to, you know, make room
for families and hardships arechanging.
It's, it's been tough, like thelast few years have been hard,
and there are so many peoplethat are one week of being sick,
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away from not being able to paytheir rent or, you know, it
doesn't take much nowadays toend up on those margins.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Yeah, there's such a need.
And you know, when you weretalking about all these
organizations just there inOwatonna, I'm like you wouldn't
think that Owatonna had a needfor all of those organizations.
But there is right,unfortunately.
I mean, you'd love to be ableto say this.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Right, the board for transitional housing in here in
town.
I was not aware of thesituation of homelessness in
Noatana because it's not avisible thing, right, it's not.
I went.
I remember as a kid going outto San Francisco with my family
and seeing people on the streets, right, and I think we have
this idea in our head thathomelessness means living on the
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street and homelessness doesnot.
It is not defined by living onthe street and homelessness does
not.
It is not defined by living onthe street.
It's couch hopping, it's livingin your car, it's moving from
friend to friend's house.
It's just it's findingtemporary, something temporary
and then moving on to the next.
It's not necessarily justliving on the streets, and I was
shocked when I found out thatthere were 120 some odd children
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in our school district thatwere considered homeless, isn't
that like a lot.
so I think, well, okay, if it's,that's if it's here and we're
not necessarily visibly seeing,it's probably lots of other
places too, not just in our owncommunity.
But I've found we've lived inowatonna for approximately 21
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years now and people show uphere in just an absolutely
incredible ways, from giving tohelping these organizations.
We just had a concert eventthat was given by some local
musicians incredible musiciansand they raised money for Oak
Hills Community Connections andfor transitional housing
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community connections and fortransitional housing In the
course of two days they raised$30,000.
Whoa that's huge, it's giant,and so it's just it's people
show up, people care.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
People are kind, yeah , absolutely, and I that's kind
of.
Why I wanted to do is becausewe don't always see those people
, right?
No, when we watch the news, welook at our social media feeds
or whatever.
You can watch Mr Beast, orwhatever, I don't know if that's
his name.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Yeah, I have teenagers.
I think it's Mr Beast.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Okay, all right, yeah , so you would know, and that's
fine and well, but we don't seethe heroes that are out there
every day working to make theirpart of the world a little
better place People like you.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
There's so many of them, and there are.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
but you know what you would never know that People
are humble.
But you know what you wouldnever know that people are
humble yeah no, you're right andthat's a oh boy.
That's a whole other discussion, I think, because it's fine to
be humble, but when you're, Idon't know, I don't know, I have
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no answers.
I'm not required to haveanswers.
I ask the questions, dang it um, I you're, you're amazing and
this organization is amazing.
So have you got any big plansfor your 10-year anniversary
this year?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I don't, not yet, but of course I've been thinking
coming up.
You know, my, my kids wouldtell me when I asked you know we
always set a goal right we said, okay, how many, how many
dollars do we want to set thisyear?
And you know, like the kids arelike 60,000 and I'm like, oh
you know, I would love that, butwe're just a daycare raising
money.
We don't have a 501c.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
We're not that caliber, are you limited Right
Without that 501c3, are youlimited to how much you can
raise?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
You know that's a great question.
I have no overhead so I don't.
You know, I don't get.
We give everything that we get.
So basically all I am is theexchange.
Hand it to me and I hand itback.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Yeah, but you got close this year.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
We got talked about that.
The kids raised $6,020 and 24cents.
We hit that 6,000 like at about8 30 PM and I got a message and
someone said I want to give.
Tell me how much I need to giveto get you to 6,000.
Cause I saw you were close andI said we were already over
6,000.
They're like I'm going to give$20 and 24 cents because it's
the year of 2024.
Yes, I love that.
I'm like that's a perfectending.
You can't.
You can't get much better thanthat.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Two and five-year-olds raise $6,000,
y'all, I don't want to hear anyexcuses.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
No, none.
I mean they are People saythings like oh my gosh, how did
you do that?
It's not me, it's them.
I'm the behind the scenes.
They don't have a Facebookaccount, so they can't go on and
tell everybody what they'redoing that is some good
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networking right there.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Those kids are set up for the future.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
I hope so I do.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Oh, my gosh so you're done for 2024 yep.
And did we talk about whichorganizations you?
We talked about one of them, Ithink.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
We talked about yep, so we gave to Oak Hill's
community Right Yep Connectionsthat and we just we were able to
give them some, some money,just to kind of help them with
their capital campaign.
Capital campaign we gave moneyto, uh, what's called furnishing
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hope, which is run by our kefcharities here in town, and
they're the ones that have thefurniture that are helping
people out.
The money is going to help thempay for their warehouse.
They've got, they've, they'vegotten a truck now so they can
help deliver to families becauseBecause you know that's one
thing People might not have atruck and a trailer right, so
they have an enclosed truck sothey can keep things dry.
We gave to a crisis resourcecenter here in town which you
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know helps families, women andchildren escape violence, gives
them a lot of good resources,sets them up with some
caseworkers and so forth.
We were able to give them moneyas well.
Real Life is an organizationpart of Young Life Christian
group here in town and Real Lifeis the entity that kind of
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works with the kids that are inour alternative learning center,
works with teens that areparenting, teens that are
pregnant, just helps them do allkinds of things, from just
having a place to come where youfeel welcomed, helping them
with resources, getting them toappointments.
The list goes on and on whatthey're doing for the community.
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We gave them some money andthen we gifted them the blankets
Again, we were talking abouthow much a blanket, how a
blanket makes you feel and wewere able to give all 16 of
their children.
They're under 18, they areserving well, maybe 18 and under
.
We were able to gift them witha blanket and then we did a
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little drive where we collectedhats and mittens and scarves and
I thought, oh, you know, peopleare going to get a couple of
things.
I had great aunts from Iowasending up crocheted hats.
I had women from the gym that Iwork out crocheting hats.
I had a printing company herein town, oak Glen, who donated
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hats and mittens and scarvesGrandparents, parents.
Every time I went to visit mymom she had another hat, my
mother-in-law had another hat.
We ended up with 150 hats, 83pairs of mittens and about 60
scarves.
So we were able to give to allfour of our elementary schools
our middle school, our highschool, our alternative school,
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our women's shelter, communitypathways and then Blooming
Prairie, which is a smallcommunity south of us, and
Medford, which is a communitynorth of us.
We're all able to get a bucketfull of hats and mittens and
scarves to help keep theirhearts and their heads and their
hands warm this year.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Wow, that is incredible, yeah.
The power of an auntie or agrandma, yeah, Yep, oh yeah, and
they were.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Some of them were just adorable, you know, you
could tell that talent and lovewas poured into each one of
those hats.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
You know I'm going to have to talk to my wife because
she uh medicare now and shejoined the y as part of her
medicare benefits and she doeslike this water zumba class oh
yeah yeah, I'm like you shouldtalk to those ladies.
I don't know how many of themknit or whatever, but yeah, get
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a group together.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Yeah, donate to the schools.
They always, always, alwaysneed those at the schools.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Or your local food shelf.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Yeah, yes, yeah, there's so many places.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
There is.
It's pretty cool, isn't?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
it Well.
Lisa, you are amazing.
I absolutely love the fact thatyou took the time to come on
and talk to me.
I love this organization.
I can't wait to see what to doa year from now yeah, my brain's
been turning.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
I, I'm get, I I'm hoping we can do some stuff
throughout the year that carrieson, that sets us up for the
giving season.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Yeah, for sure, look for you on Facebook.
Correct yep, the Kindness Crew.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Yep, yep the.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Kindness Crew Does the name change every year?
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Well, this is the first year I've done a social
media page Other than my ownprivate social media page.
I just decided not to go withthat this year and decided to
create because people arecurious and they want to see,
and I got to.
You know, I have to protectkids and their identities and
their things as well, so wewanted to make something a
little bit more easy to accessthat doesn't have names and
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things attached to it.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
So so the name of your Facebook group is the
Kindness Crew Service Project2024.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Yeah, we're going to have to change that name, aren't
we?
Speaker 1 (28:25):
I was going to say is it going to be the same name
except 2025?
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Well, put 2025 on it, you bet.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Okay, so if you want to go find out what's happening
with the Kindness Crew, yes,check us out, that is.
Boatana.
Make sure to follow, make sureto donate if you can.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
I mean, you have a place to take that right.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
You bet.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
You guys have a website.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
We don't.
But you know, we just keepgetting bigger and bigger.
So I'm just going to have tocome up with more and more.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Somebody's going to have to step up.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I probably got a parent that's capable of that
right.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
It's gotta to be.
Thank you so much, I appreciateit.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Much, much luck to you guys in 2025.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Yes, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
We'll talk again.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
I hope so.
Take care, bye-bye now Takecare.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Bye-bye now.
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Hello and welcome everybody.
Thank you so much for joiningus today and I am so excited to
have you here and I am excitedfor you to meet my guest.
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You know, when we think aboutkindness or big kindness
operations, we don't often thinkof smaller cities, cities in
rural spaces.
You know, when you think of bighonking kindness organizations
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are usually in big cities, right?
But I heard this year last year, depending on when you hear
this about an amazingorganization in Owatonna,
minnesota, and it's a daycare.
It's a freaking daycare run byone of the most incredible human
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beings I have ever had thepleasure to meet.
Her name is Lisa Korbel and Ihave her on with the show today.
Welcome, lisa.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Thanks, Mike.
Thank you for having me welcome, lisa.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Thanks, mike.
Thank you for having me.
Oh, this is so exciting.
I have never seen somebody elseand then reached out to them
and had them on the show, sothis is a first for me.
I just have to have you.
I know that your story is thatgood that, um, I wouldn't take
no for an answer.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, it's worth sharing.
It's worth sharing.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
It absolutely is so the name of your group.
That isn't the name of thedaycare, though, right?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
No, my daycare is called.
There's no Place Like HomeDaycare and we call ourselves
and the things we do for thecommunity.
We.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
We've given ourselves a name the kindness crew you
are indeed, and and when wethink of a crew, we don't think
of necessarily two to five yearolds.
We don't, but that's what youguys are yep, they're the heart
and the soul.
That is so awesome, and thisall started well.
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Actually, this year will beyour 10th year doing this right
Correct?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yep, this was our 10th giving season.
We started back in 2015, so wehad given for 10 seasons, but
technically, 2025 is our 10thyear.
How do you?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
count that I know my wife and I have this big, huge
thing about how to count down.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yes, in 2024,.
It was the 10th time of doingsomething, but you know the
seasons, I suppose.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Exactly so.
Your first, the first time thatyou decided to give, was that
2015?
.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
That's correct Yep 2015.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yep, okay, and that changed everything for you.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
That changed, that set the story in motion.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Nice, it did so.
Talk to us about that, tell usabout it.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
So back in 2015, you know the fleece tie blankets
that are real popular, at leastthey were in the early 2000s we
decided, yeah, people love them.
Right, A warm, cozy blanket.
It just does something for you.
It makes you happy, it makesyou feel warm, it makes you feel
loved.
You just wrap yourself in thatand you feel that comfort.
(04:25):
And we had been talking to thekids Myself had been talking to
the kids about giving.
We had just kind of finishedwith our gratitude and giving
and we said let's do somethingfor the community.
And so we came up with the ideato make tie blankets.
It was something simple wecould do.
The kids could some, some ofthem could help me cut.
We were working on our tying,we got some fine motor skills in
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on there and you know somelearning that went along with it
.
And then I contacted a localorganization in the city of
Owatonna that was called LilySparrow House and at that time
Lily Sparrow House was our womanand children's shelter here in
town and when I spoke with thedirector she had let me know
that there was some families inthere right now and the blankets
we had was full of cars andblues and reds and we thought,
(05:13):
oh, this may, a little boy maybewould like this.
I don't think it really wouldhave mattered, but we, that's
where we thought.
She said, yep, there's a littleboy here at at the house right
now.
So we concluded for the day.
I sent the kids home.
I went to the home and I knockedon the door and I was met.
I thought maybe it was going tobe the director, but I was met
(05:33):
with a resident by a resident,and so I explained to her again
who I was, what we were doing,and the woman's eyes immediately
filled with tears, which, ofcourse, and the woman's eyes
immediately filled with tears,which, of course, my eyes
immediately filled with tearsand she told me that she was
currently living in the home andthe blanket was going to be for
her son and that we had thisemotional exchange.
(05:57):
That was absolutely incredible.
And I walked down those stairsand I still get a little
emotional about it today.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I walked down those stairs.
I'm getting emotional justlistening to you tell it and
I've get a little emotionalabout it today.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I walked down those stairs and in my heart I knew
right at that moment like we'regoing to do this.
We're going to do this everysingle year, and I am not going
to be the one that does it all.
I want the kids to be with meevery step of the way, and
that's where it all changed.
And now they are.
They follow me through theentire process of giving.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Yeah, that's so cool.
And I mean, you, you involved.
Well, you, you do you involvethem in every step of the
process, right, yes?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yep, they're there we so, on World Kindness Day, we
announced so, announced, so nowthat we've done this for 10
seasons and we've tried to hit.
Oatan is a really coolcommunity.
We have about a population ofabout 28,000, but we have lots
of services in town that helppeople in need and a lot of
organizations that we have beenable to give to, and so there's
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been fantastic opportunities forus to raise money, to collect
items, to do things, and so theyit starts out where I announce
it, the kids and I kind of telleverybody.
We take the social media, westart telling moms and dads and
grandmas and grandpas, and thenthey start collecting money.
But my families have taken it astep further, which has been
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really cool, and they havedecided to do things like create
things and sell things.
So we've had everything fromdrawings to homemade Christmas
trees to wreaths to hang on yourdoor, cookies to hot chocolate,
and the kids and their parentsassemble these items and then
sell them and give them, give upthe kindness crew all the
(07:51):
profit.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah done to support the kindness crew exactly,
exactly so cool.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
so then we choose an end date.
So we usually go about inexactly a month or so and then
we I typically reach out to allthe organizations letting them
know hey, you've been chosen bythe kindness crew.
How can we best serve you thisyear?
Do you need a monetary donation?
Do you need some winter gear?
Do you need hygiene supplies?
What can we do that would mostbenefit you at this point in
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your organization?
And so lots of times we'll say,hey, yeah, we could really use
hats and mittens or deodorants.
So the kids and I and theirfamilies will go to the local
Walmart or the local Target andwe'll have a shopping day.
So I give everybody a list andwe walk around.
This year we filled two cartsoverflowing with blankets, soft,
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cuddly blankets.
We had buckets full ofdeodorant and soap and razors
and all kinds of stuff.
The kids take it off theshelves, they put it on the
counter and we pay together as agroup.
So they are really there forthe whole entire experience.
(09:05):
And then this past week weinvite the organizations to come
to my home, to the KindnessCrew home.
Or we have also got a good inwith the bus company of parents.
That is a bus driver and hasgiven us some rides, so we load
up the bus and the moms and dadsand everybody gets on the bus
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and we drive to these places andthe kids get to see what this
year we got to see.
One of the places that we gaveto is an organization that helps
families coming out ofhomelessness or getting their
first apartment and imagine howexciting that is.
But now you don't have a couchor you don't have a table right
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and now you're together as afamily and you want to sit down
and have a meal together at atable, and so this organization
people can donate.
You know, we all get newfurniture and we go what are we?
going to do with this old tableor this, and we think it's to us
maybe no longer has worth, butcould mean so much to another
family.
So they have a really coolwarehouse where they store all
(10:11):
this stuff and then they allowpeople to come in and at no cost
they can outfit their entirehome or apartment with beds and
couches and tables and chairs,and so the kids got to see that
and that's really really cool,really cool I, you never really
even think about that, right.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
You think, okay, well , they were unhoused and then
they were housed and and that'sthe end of the story, and you
don't think about all of thelittle things that go into that
right exactly right, wow.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
So yeah, they got to see.
You know from the beginning,right, exactly, right, wow.
So, yeah, they got to see, youknow, from the beginning to the
end, and it's so fun just towatch their little faces handing
over a check or handing over.
This year we filled buckets ofthings, of hats and mittens and
stuff, and just for the kids tohave that experience, I think,
(11:04):
yeah, it's pretty incredible andI I guess my whole hope is that
they don't forget that feeling,because there's there's
something about giving thatfills us too, that fills our
hearts too, and I hope theynever, ever, forget that feeling
, because then they're going towant to keep doing it right,
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even when they leave this place.
They're going to want to keepgiving, keep helping this place.
They're going to want to keepgiving, keep helping, keep
showing up keep extendingthemselves.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
So if you could, could you talk to me about what
goes into the process ofchoosing the beneficiaries of
your giving for a particularseason?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
So we have our community, I would say, has our
different things listed on awebsite.
When you want to come to youknow, the Chamber of Commerce
has a list of our nonprofits.
Our United Way has a list ofnonprofits and I typically go on
and say I just started kind ofat the beginning years ago and
(12:07):
said let's try and let's see howmany we can hit over the next
10 years, you know, and how manywe can hit.
Sometimes we give more than toone community pathways.
I would describe it's our foodshelf, but it's kind of a hub in
our community for a lot ofdifferent things.
There's a lot of resources thatpeople can get there.
There's they have an area whereyou can get clothing, you can
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get your food, you can get yourhygiene products.
There is an entity in therethat offers dental care to
children.
Transitional housing is anentity that is within the
community pathways buildingwhere it allows people who are
on the margins that need whetherit's rent, assistance, whether
they need to be housed, ifthey're escaping violence.
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It's a place where people cancome and they can access all of
those things at the same time.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
and get set up for successes.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
That would definitely be worth a second donation or a
second?
Yeah, so a lot of times we givethem.
You know they always kind ofget added in.
On this year we did a bunch ofhats and mittens and some
hygiene products, and so thenthey said that this is the time
of the year those things are.
You know, it's getting colder,people need those hats and those
mittens, the weather's changingand so those are those things
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that they always are in need of.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Oh for sure.
And you talked about hopingthat the kids kind of kept this
feeling of giving with them asthey grew up.
When we were talking, you had acouple of instances where
you've run into some kids thatwere part of the kindness crew
with you.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Yes, yeah, and they were lovely In fact yeah, I, I
in fact, yeah, oh yeah, In fact,on Tuesday, when we did our
delivery, we I welcome backanybody that's ever been part of
a kind of the kindness crew,Cause you don't, your membership
doesn't cease when you walk outthe door, it continues forever.
And, uh, I've invited familiesalong.
Hey, if invited families along,hey, if you want to come along
for this delivery or whatever.
(14:08):
In fact, those families didprojects this year and raised
money and handed me checks for afew hundred dollars.
So it was pretty cool.
I was delivering to a school.
We were able to gift all theschools a bucket full of hats
and mittens and scarves, everysingle school in our district
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and then the two districts thatare the closest to us.
And I walked in the hall andthe little boy.
All of a sudden I hear Lisa,Lisa.
I'm looking around like well,who knows me?
Oh, yep, it was a boy that he'sa third grader now and he's
like that was my daycare.
That was Lisa, he's telling allhis buddies.
So yeah, I mean, I think they'reremembering, I hope they're
(14:51):
remembering.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
That's so cool.
Well, clearly, they do.
I mean that's got to be a hugepart of their core memories.
Now, when I was a kid, we werethe kindness crew.
Yes, yeah, we helped.
That's so cool it is.
It's so cool.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
It is, it's really cool.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
So talk to me about okay.
Now you've also worked withhomeless kids.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Nope, nope, not me.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Oak Hills Community Center.
That is, we were talking aboutthat.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Yep, oak Hills is.
It has not come yet to Owatonna.
It is in the works.
Sorry, yep, Oak Hills is.
It has not come yet to Owatonna.
It is in the works.
Sorry, yep, that's okay, itwill be.
You know, I don't know whattheir target date for opening is
.
I serve on a board calledTransitional Housing here in
Owatonna and we will probably bedoing a lot of work with them.
(15:45):
Work with them, oak HillsCommunity Connections is trying
to fill a gap in our communitiesnot just our community, but
other communities as well andthat is placement for families.
We find that there are women inchildren's shelters, we find
that there are shelters servingmen, but there are not shelters
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serving men with children orfamilies, and so their goal is
to have a facility that would beable to accommodate entire
families that want to staytogether, want to be together,
want to live together.
Of course, that's where youwant to be is with your family,
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and so that is their hope thatwe will have a facility that
would be able to accommodatequite a few families.
So it'd be wonderful.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Yeah, that would be amazing.
Why do you suppose it is thatthey there's one for men and
there's one for women andchildren, but no mix.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Well, and I think you know, I think women and
children kids are often and staywith mom.
Yeah, that ends up being thething.
Our men's shelter is oftenutilized by men coming out of
hardships, rehab, you know where.
Maybe it's not as safe as anenvironment for children to be
(17:09):
in and I don't know.
I think things are changing.
You know we, you know we'retrying to, you know, make room
for families and hardships arechanging.
It's, it's been tough, like thelast few years have been hard,
and there are so many peoplethat are one week of being sick,
(17:30):
away from not being able to paytheir rent or, you know, it
doesn't take much nowadays toend up on those margins.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Yeah, there's such a need.
And you know, when you weretalking about all these
organizations just there inOwatonna, I'm like you wouldn't
think that Owatonna had a needfor all of those organizations.
But there is right,unfortunately.
I mean, you'd love to be ableto say this.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Right, the board for transitional housing in here in
town.
I was not aware of thesituation of homelessness in
Noatana because it's not avisible thing, right, it's not.
I went.
I remember as a kid going outto San Francisco with my family
and seeing people on the streets, right, and I think we have
this idea in our head thathomelessness means living on the
(18:26):
street and homelessness doesnot.
It is not defined by living onthe street and homelessness does
not.
It is not defined by living onthe street.
It's couch hopping, it's livingin your car, it's moving from
friend to friend's house.
It's just it's findingtemporary, something temporary
and then moving on to the next.
It's not necessarily justliving on the streets, and I was
shocked when I found out thatthere were 120 some odd children
(18:50):
in our school district thatwere considered homeless, isn't
that like a lot.
so I think, well, okay, if it's,that's if it's here and we're
not necessarily visibly seeing,it's probably lots of other
places too, not just in our owncommunity.
But I've found we've lived inowatonna for approximately 21
(19:15):
years now and people show uphere in just an absolutely
incredible ways, from giving tohelping these organizations.
We just had a concert eventthat was given by some local
musicians incredible musiciansand they raised money for Oak
Hills Community Connections andfor transitional housing
(19:38):
community connections and fortransitional housing In the
course of two days they raised$30,000.
Whoa that's huge, it's giant,and so it's just it's people
show up, people care.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
People are kind, yeah , absolutely, and I that's kind
of.
Why I wanted to do is becausewe don't always see those people
, right?
No, when we watch the news, welook at our social media feeds
or whatever.
You can watch Mr Beast, orwhatever, I don't know if that's
his name.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Yeah, I have teenagers.
I think it's Mr Beast.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Okay, all right, yeah , so you would know, and that's
fine and well, but we don't seethe heroes that are out there
every day working to make theirpart of the world a little
better place People like you.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
There's so many of them, and there are.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
but you know what you would never know that People
are humble.
But you know what you wouldnever know that people are
humble yeah no, you're right andthat's a oh boy.
That's a whole other discussion, I think, because it's fine to
be humble, but when you're, Idon't know, I don't know, I have
(20:59):
no answers.
I'm not required to haveanswers.
I ask the questions, dang it um, I you're, you're amazing and
this organization is amazing.
So have you got any big plansfor your 10-year anniversary
this year?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I don't, not yet, but of course I've been thinking
coming up.
You know, my, my kids wouldtell me when I asked you know we
always set a goal right we said, okay, how many, how many
dollars do we want to set thisyear?
And you know, like the kids arelike 60,000 and I'm like, oh
you know, I would love that, butwe're just a daycare raising
money.
We don't have a 501c.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
We're not that caliber, are you limited Right
Without that 501c3, are youlimited to how much you can
raise?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
You know that's a great question.
I have no overhead so I don't.
You know, I don't get.
We give everything that we get.
So basically all I am is theexchange.
Hand it to me and I hand itback.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Yeah, but you got close this year.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
We got talked about that.
The kids raised $6,020 and 24cents.
We hit that 6,000 like at about8 30 PM and I got a message and
someone said I want to give.
Tell me how much I need to giveto get you to 6,000.
Cause I saw you were close andI said we were already over
6,000.
They're like I'm going to give$20 and 24 cents because it's
the year of 2024.
Yes, I love that.
I'm like that's a perfectending.
You can't.
You can't get much better thanthat.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Two and five-year-olds raise $6,000,
y'all, I don't want to hear anyexcuses.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
No, none.
I mean they are People saythings like oh my gosh, how did
you do that?
It's not me, it's them.
I'm the behind the scenes.
They don't have a Facebookaccount, so they can't go on and
tell everybody what they'redoing that is some good
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networking right there.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Those kids are set up for the future.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
I hope so I do.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Oh, my gosh so you're done for 2024 yep.
And did we talk about whichorganizations you?
We talked about one of them, Ithink.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
We talked about yep, so we gave to Oak Hill's
community Right Yep Connectionsthat and we just we were able to
give them some, some money,just to kind of help them with
their capital campaign.
Capital campaign we gave moneyto, uh, what's called furnishing
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hope, which is run by our kefcharities here in town, and
they're the ones that have thefurniture that are helping
people out.
The money is going to help thempay for their warehouse.
They've got, they've, they'vegotten a truck now so they can
help deliver to families becauseBecause you know that's one
thing People might not have atruck and a trailer right, so
they have an enclosed truck sothey can keep things dry.
We gave to a crisis resourcecenter here in town which you
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know helps families, women andchildren escape violence, gives
them a lot of good resources,sets them up with some
caseworkers and so forth.
We were able to give them moneyas well.
Real Life is an organizationpart of Young Life Christian
group here in town and Real Lifeis the entity that kind of
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works with the kids that are inour alternative learning center,
works with teens that areparenting, teens that are
pregnant, just helps them do allkinds of things, from just
having a place to come where youfeel welcomed, helping them
with resources, getting them toappointments.
The list goes on and on whatthey're doing for the community.
(24:52):
We gave them some money andthen we gifted them the blankets
Again, we were talking abouthow much a blanket, how a
blanket makes you feel and wewere able to give all 16 of
their children.
They're under 18, they areserving well, maybe 18 and under
.
We were able to gift them witha blanket and then we did a
(25:17):
little drive where we collectedhats and mittens and scarves and
I thought, oh, you know, peopleare going to get a couple of
things.
I had great aunts from Iowasending up crocheted hats.
I had women from the gym that Iwork out crocheting hats.
I had a printing company herein town, oak Glen, who donated
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hats and mittens and scarvesGrandparents, parents.
Every time I went to visit mymom she had another hat, my
mother-in-law had another hat.
We ended up with 150 hats, 83pairs of mittens and about 60
scarves.
So we were able to give to allfour of our elementary schools
our middle school, our highschool, our alternative school,
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our women's shelter, communitypathways and then Blooming
Prairie, which is a smallcommunity south of us, and
Medford, which is a communitynorth of us.
We're all able to get a bucketfull of hats and mittens and
scarves to help keep theirhearts and their heads and their
hands warm this year.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Wow, that is incredible, yeah.
The power of an auntie or agrandma, yeah, Yep, oh yeah, and
they were.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Some of them were just adorable, you know, you
could tell that talent and lovewas poured into each one of
those hats.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
You know I'm going to have to talk to my wife because
she uh medicare now and shejoined the y as part of her
medicare benefits and she doeslike this water zumba class oh
yeah yeah, I'm like you shouldtalk to those ladies.
I don't know how many of themknit or whatever, but yeah, get
(26:58):
a group together.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Yeah, donate to the schools.
They always, always, alwaysneed those at the schools.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Or your local food shelf.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Yeah, yes, yeah, there's so many places.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
There is.
It's pretty cool, isn't?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
it Well.
Lisa, you are amazing.
I absolutely love the fact thatyou took the time to come on
and talk to me.
I love this organization.
I can't wait to see what to doa year from now yeah, my brain's
been turning.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
I, I'm get, I I'm hoping we can do some stuff
throughout the year that carrieson, that sets us up for the
giving season.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Yeah, for sure, look for you on Facebook.
Correct yep, the Kindness Crew.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Yep, yep the.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Kindness Crew Does the name change every year?
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Well, this is the first year I've done a social
media page Other than my ownprivate social media page.
I just decided not to go withthat this year and decided to
create because people arecurious and they want to see,
and I got to.
You know, I have to protectkids and their identities and
their things as well, so wewanted to make something a
little bit more easy to accessthat doesn't have names and
(28:14):
things attached to it.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
So so the name of your Facebook group is the
Kindness Crew Service Project2024.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Yeah, we're going to have to change that name, aren't
we?
Speaker 1 (28:25):
I was going to say is it going to be the same name
except 2025?
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Well, put 2025 on it, you bet.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Okay, so if you want to go find out what's happening
with the Kindness Crew, yes,check us out, that is.
Boatana.
Make sure to follow, make sureto donate if you can.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
I mean, you have a place to take that right.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
You bet.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
You guys have a website.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
We don't.
But you know, we just keepgetting bigger and bigger.
So I'm just going to have tocome up with more and more.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Somebody's going to have to step up.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I probably got a parent that's capable of that
right.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
It's gotta to be.
Thank you so much, I appreciateit.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Much, much luck to you guys in 2025.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Yes, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
We'll talk again.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
I hope so.
Take care, bye-bye now Takecare.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Bye-bye now.
I want to thank you for takingthis time to listen to this
episode with my guest, LisaKorbel.
I hope that you're able to takesomething positive from Lisa's
message and from the time thatyou spent with me.
Maybe you'll be inspired, Maybeyou'll be motivated.
Maybe you'll be inspired, Maybeyou'll be motivated, Maybe
(29:44):
you'll be moved.
If you experienced any of thosepositive feelings, please
consider sharing this podcastwith your friends and family.
Also, feel free to follow us onour socials like Facebook,
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Just look for the KindnessMatters podcast or a variation
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would be honored if you wouldjoin us.
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I'm your host, Mike Rathbun.
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