August 22, 2024 • 13 mins
And we would love for you to join the Kim Foundation, John Ondrasik, and me at this Sept. 12th event at Steelhouse!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott VORDIEZ, all right, Lucy, you want to know what's
going on. Lucy's like you never tell me anything. You're saying,
you're promoting these things, and I don't know anything about
it until everyone else does. All right please, Okay, Well,
by virtue of you having your headphones on and being
subject to the program feed of this show, you're actually
(00:20):
going to hear about this about twenty seconds before anybody else. Yes,
so you are gonna hear first. All right, here's how
this works. Our radio station turns one hundred years old
this year. That's and that's something where we started talking
about this last year. And I said, all right, so
(00:42):
our station turns one hundred and I want to do
something really big for this event. And here's who I
want to be a part of it.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Okay, I will, and that's you.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
And not only because he's one of my favorite musicians,
but because one of his songs is called one hundred years,
And I said, I want John Andrassik a fire for fighting.
He's a great patriot, he is a wonderful American. He's
an incredible piano player, singer and songwriter. And plus he
has this song one hundred Years let's listen in.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I'm fifteen for a moment, coding between ten and twenty,
and I'm just treat man counting the ways to where
you are heard. I'm twumpy too for a moment, and
(01:41):
she feels bad than ever who wear wild fire making
away back from fifteen misstads, times of bads lifty. This's
(02:04):
never a wish better than this when you only got
a hundred years.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Now that that's at the significance there is not that
our radio station only has one hundred years to live,
as John says there but I just absolutely love this guy.
And there's so many reasons why. I mentioned earlier as
we talked with Triple call sign Triple of the United
States Air Force Thunderbirds. They're dedicating their performance on Sunday
(02:37):
to Corporal Dagan Page. John Andrasik dedicated wrote a song
in honor of the Americans loss in Afghanistan, including Corporal
Dagan Page. This guy loves our country and there's an
element to him. I've had a chance to interview him before,
and I've seen him live a few times, and there's
an element to him I didn't even know he all.
(03:00):
He so talks about his own personal experiences with mental
health and that is the focus of this event next month.
It's called a Night to Remember and it's coming up
at the Steelhouse, Omaha. This brand new if you've not
been to Steelhouse, Omaha downtown, right next to the Holland Center,
this is an absolute treat for you to be a
(03:21):
part of this. It's at Steelhouse, Omaha and it's featuring
John Androsik, lead singer songwriter of five for Fighting as
he'll play some of his songs, including one big one
that we'll hear in just a moment, as well as
talk about his personal experience with mental health and when
(03:41):
it comes to mental health issues being dealt with here
in our community. There's a wonderful organization that does this,
and this is the organization bringing John in and allowing
me to be a part of this. We welcome the
executive director of the Kim Foundation here, Julia Hebenstreit is
with this on eleven ten. Kfab Julia, thank you very
(04:03):
much for rating my CD collection and bringing in our
good friend John Andrasic for this event next month that's
coming up on September twelfth.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
It is it'll be here before we know it. And
thanks for having me on air today. I appreciate it absolutely.
Where did I mean I told you why I wanted
John in town here? How was it that you were
able to connect with him? Yeah? So, actually I was
at a conference last May in Los Angeles and it's
the big national conference that we go to each year,
over six thousand people and it's three days, and he
(04:33):
closed it out actually and did the closing keynote session
and it was just incredible. And he is going to
do the same performance for us on September twelfth, And
so as I was watching him, there were probably about
forty forty five other Nebraskans at the event as well,
and getting to talk to all of them and how
powerful it was because I knew, you know, it really
(04:55):
moved me and it just was something so unique to
really bring the community together around mental health, and we're
always looking for new ways to do that, so I
knew we had to bring them here and it worked
out luckily for our annual event in September.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
This is going to be an impactful fundraiser for the
Kim Foundation. What will this allow your organization to do
there in terms of reaching people who are struggling with
suicide mental health issues dealing with some of those issues absolutely.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
So we provide programming throughout the community around education and
really mental health promotion and building awareness. And we like
to do that at no cost for anyone who would
like that programming and education, and so this fundraiser allows
us to do that. We go into schools, churches, service groups,
professional groups, businesses, really anyone who wants the information, we're
(05:48):
there to provide it. We also work with law enforcement
and help all families in the community who have lost
a loved one to suicide really work through that immediate
crisis and provide them support. We have a lot of
different programming to really just bring our community together and
educate around these important topics, and so this fundraiser allows
us to do that and provide them for free in
(06:10):
the community.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I love picking the brands of people who do some
of the really really important things that you do, and
I have to relate it to you to my life,
you know. So I come in here to work. Let's
say I absolutely happen to stumble upon doing a good
radio show and I get some people that email and go, hey,
that was good. I didn't know this about property taxes,
(06:34):
or you said something funny and you made me laugh
and that was great, and I go, wow, what a
great day at work.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I had.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
You go to work and you save lives. That's really important,
you know. So when you're laying your head down at
the end of the day here, how do you reflect
on what you do and your team at the Kim
Foundation to be able to save lives here in our community.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
That's a great question. Thank you for asking that. I
think and you made a great point. Our whole team
is doing this work in the community, and I think,
you know, we have amazing community partners throughout the community
that allow us to even further our mission more so,
and so I really just reflect on the partnerships and
collaborations and just knowing that we're able to reach the
(07:17):
people who really are in need in our community. You know,
we don't provide direct services, but we get calls every
day from individuals and families telling us their story and
not sure where to turn or who to reach out to,
and so we're able to connect them with that help.
We also when we're out doing presentations and trainings, I
can't tell you the amount of times that people come
(07:38):
up afterward and say thank you, you know, I needed
this information either myself or a loved one is really struggling.
Now I know what to look for, what to watch for,
and then most importantly, where to connect them for help.
And so I think just you know, knowing we are
a small part of that in the community and just
makes it worthwhile every day because there's certainly difficult days
as well where we have to, you know, prioritize our
(07:59):
own mental health because it is difficult to do.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
That's the other side of that coin. I was going
to ask about. You know, sometimes you have bad days
and you know, and I could you know, lend my
own experience of like I have a bad day. We
might have a few seconds of dead air, or maybe
I get all cranky about something. You know, really in
the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter, you know,
but you turn on the news, you see stories, you
(08:22):
hear things, you see things on social media, and you
can absolutely get lost if you choose to in the
spiral of But I can't help everybody all the time,
and that can be overwhelming. How do you deal with that?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Yeah, so with a great team in place and just
great friends and family, being able to have that outlet.
But really, knowing the ones the people that we are
able to reach and save. You know, every life lost
or everyone struggling is really difficult for us. But to
have those moments of inspiration and just connection with others
really helps offset that a bit. But certainly there are
(09:00):
days heavier than others, and especially you know, when we
lose someone in our community to suicide, that just the
ripple effect that that has in our community and to
see that firsthand can be really challenging. So just taking
care of our own mental health is important too, so
that we can continue to serve others.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Is it my imagination or are we having more of
these issues with younger and younger people And if that
is true, then how how does your organization deal with
being there for them before it gets to be a
bigger problem.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, so we are seeing that younger and younger kiddos
not only think about suicide but unfortunately act on that,
but even beforehand, you know, really struggling with that anxiety
and depression and just not knowing, you know, the unknown
is really hard for us as adults and certainly for
youth as well, and so we are seeing post pandemic
(09:51):
those rates of anxiety and depression really increase visits to
therapists and unfortunately the hospitals as well, is you know,
both of those are up and so being able to
connect with them. And I think we're very fortunate in
this community to have school districts who truly care about
not only their students but their school community. And so
(10:12):
working with the schools to make sure that we are
able to get in there and provide this education and
information to the students is really important. And also the
staff so that they know how to identify a student
who may be struggling, and then if they do identify
that student, you know, where can we make sure to
get them the help that they need. And the kids
are really you know, youth are very open to this
(10:35):
conversation and to the information. They want to help, you know,
and we try and approach it because it can be
very scary and difficult topic. So we try and approach
it in a more hopeful way and with our delivery
and so just making it something that they can talk about.
We you know, I'm always encouraged by this generation and
I do believe it's you know, our duty to help
them and to really pave the way for them. And
(10:58):
this is a small way in doing that, and they're
open to talking about mental health. They want to help
each other and others.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
So we have a chance for you to be a
part of this incredibly impactful evening coming up next week here,
not next week, next month, on September twelfth. That's a Thursday, Thursday,
September twelfth, the Steel House, Omaha. It's a Time for
Hope and Healing, a night to remember, September twelfth at
the Steelhouse Downtown, a fundraiser for the Kim Foundation. All
(11:26):
the details are online at the Kimfoundation dot org. The
Kimfoundation dot org. Is there a phone number of people
can call to get tickets.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yeah, you can call four zero two eight nine to
one six ' nine one one, or like you said,
just go online and you can purchase seats. And they're
still sponsorships available as well.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Four oh two eight nine one six nine one one
to call for more information. They get your tickets for
a Time for Hope and Healing Thursday, September twelfth the
Steel House, Omaha, or again online at the Kimfoundation dot org.
But I want to give away a pair of tickets
right now. Yeah, absolutely for this We want you to
be there, so I'm gonna let the song play here
(12:09):
for a moment, and we'll also be there for those
listening online going, Hey, how do I win if I'm
like forty five seconds behind live here and I don't
get a chance to win. So we'll take caller number
fifty fifty.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Okay, let's do it.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Right now at four oh two five five eight eleven ten.
That's four oh two five five eight eleven ten. Caller
fifty wins a pair of tickets to this event September
twelfth at Steelhouse. If you're not caller fifty, go to
the Kimfoundation dot org. Julia heebin Stride, Executive director of
the Kim Foundation, I'm so excited to be part of
(12:44):
this event. I'm pushing my friend Brian Mastery from WWT
six to the side for a moment and joining John
Andrassic on stage not to sing thank Goodness, but to
help him tell his story about his incredible music and
the tie in here to mental health and suicide awareness.
It's gonna be a great night and we're gonna hear
this song and be singing it with him. I can't wait.
(13:06):
This is fire for Fighting's biggest hit. Superman on eleven
ten kfab.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I can't stand to fly. I'm not the night. I'm
just to fine. The better part of me hum more
than a bed. Ho'm more than a fly, more than
(13:33):
some pretty fast beside a train. And it's naught easy,
Sup Be me? Scott Fortes Morning's nine to eleven Our
News Radio, eleven ten kfab
Scott VORDIEZ, all right, Lucy, you want to know what's
going on. Lucy's like you never tell me anything. You're saying,
you're promoting these things, and I don't know anything about
it until everyone else does. All right please, Okay, Well,
by virtue of you having your headphones on and being
subject to the program feed of this show, you're actually
(00:20):
going to hear about this about twenty seconds before anybody else. Yes,
so you are gonna hear first. All right, here's how
this works. Our radio station turns one hundred years old
this year. That's and that's something where we started talking
about this last year. And I said, all right, so
(00:42):
our station turns one hundred and I want to do
something really big for this event. And here's who I
want to be a part of it.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Okay, I will, and that's you.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
And not only because he's one of my favorite musicians,
but because one of his songs is called one hundred years,
And I said, I want John Andrassik a fire for fighting.
He's a great patriot, he is a wonderful American. He's
an incredible piano player, singer and songwriter. And plus he
has this song one hundred Years let's listen in.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I'm fifteen for a moment, coding between ten and twenty,
and I'm just treat man counting the ways to where
you are heard. I'm twumpy too for a moment, and
(01:41):
she feels bad than ever who wear wild fire making
away back from fifteen misstads, times of bads lifty. This's
(02:04):
never a wish better than this when you only got
a hundred years.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Now that that's at the significance there is not that
our radio station only has one hundred years to live,
as John says there but I just absolutely love this guy.
And there's so many reasons why. I mentioned earlier as
we talked with Triple call sign Triple of the United
States Air Force Thunderbirds. They're dedicating their performance on Sunday
(02:37):
to Corporal Dagan Page. John Andrasik dedicated wrote a song
in honor of the Americans loss in Afghanistan, including Corporal
Dagan Page. This guy loves our country and there's an
element to him. I've had a chance to interview him before,
and I've seen him live a few times, and there's
an element to him I didn't even know he all.
(03:00):
He so talks about his own personal experiences with mental
health and that is the focus of this event next month.
It's called a Night to Remember and it's coming up
at the Steelhouse, Omaha. This brand new if you've not
been to Steelhouse, Omaha downtown, right next to the Holland Center,
this is an absolute treat for you to be a
(03:21):
part of this. It's at Steelhouse, Omaha and it's featuring
John Androsik, lead singer songwriter of five for Fighting as
he'll play some of his songs, including one big one
that we'll hear in just a moment, as well as
talk about his personal experience with mental health and when
(03:41):
it comes to mental health issues being dealt with here
in our community. There's a wonderful organization that does this,
and this is the organization bringing John in and allowing
me to be a part of this. We welcome the
executive director of the Kim Foundation here, Julia Hebenstreit is
with this on eleven ten. Kfab Julia, thank you very
(04:03):
much for rating my CD collection and bringing in our
good friend John Andrasic for this event next month that's
coming up on September twelfth.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
It is it'll be here before we know it. And
thanks for having me on air today. I appreciate it absolutely.
Where did I mean I told you why I wanted
John in town here? How was it that you were
able to connect with him? Yeah? So, actually I was
at a conference last May in Los Angeles and it's
the big national conference that we go to each year,
over six thousand people and it's three days, and he
(04:33):
closed it out actually and did the closing keynote session
and it was just incredible. And he is going to
do the same performance for us on September twelfth, And
so as I was watching him, there were probably about
forty forty five other Nebraskans at the event as well,
and getting to talk to all of them and how
powerful it was because I knew, you know, it really
(04:55):
moved me and it just was something so unique to
really bring the community together around mental health, and we're
always looking for new ways to do that, so I
knew we had to bring them here and it worked
out luckily for our annual event in September.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
This is going to be an impactful fundraiser for the
Kim Foundation. What will this allow your organization to do
there in terms of reaching people who are struggling with
suicide mental health issues dealing with some of those issues absolutely.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
So we provide programming throughout the community around education and
really mental health promotion and building awareness. And we like
to do that at no cost for anyone who would
like that programming and education, and so this fundraiser allows
us to do that. We go into schools, churches, service groups,
professional groups, businesses, really anyone who wants the information, we're
(05:48):
there to provide it. We also work with law enforcement
and help all families in the community who have lost
a loved one to suicide really work through that immediate
crisis and provide them support. We have a lot of
different programming to really just bring our community together and
educate around these important topics, and so this fundraiser allows
us to do that and provide them for free in
(06:10):
the community.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I love picking the brands of people who do some
of the really really important things that you do, and
I have to relate it to you to my life,
you know. So I come in here to work. Let's
say I absolutely happen to stumble upon doing a good
radio show and I get some people that email and go, hey,
that was good. I didn't know this about property taxes,
(06:34):
or you said something funny and you made me laugh
and that was great, and I go, wow, what a
great day at work.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I had.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
You go to work and you save lives. That's really important,
you know. So when you're laying your head down at
the end of the day here, how do you reflect
on what you do and your team at the Kim
Foundation to be able to save lives here in our community.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
That's a great question. Thank you for asking that. I
think and you made a great point. Our whole team
is doing this work in the community, and I think,
you know, we have amazing community partners throughout the community
that allow us to even further our mission more so,
and so I really just reflect on the partnerships and
collaborations and just knowing that we're able to reach the
(07:17):
people who really are in need in our community. You know,
we don't provide direct services, but we get calls every
day from individuals and families telling us their story and
not sure where to turn or who to reach out to,
and so we're able to connect them with that help.
We also when we're out doing presentations and trainings, I
can't tell you the amount of times that people come
(07:38):
up afterward and say thank you, you know, I needed
this information either myself or a loved one is really struggling.
Now I know what to look for, what to watch for,
and then most importantly, where to connect them for help.
And so I think just you know, knowing we are
a small part of that in the community and just
makes it worthwhile every day because there's certainly difficult days
as well where we have to, you know, prioritize our
(07:59):
own mental health because it is difficult to do.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
That's the other side of that coin. I was going
to ask about. You know, sometimes you have bad days
and you know, and I could you know, lend my
own experience of like I have a bad day. We
might have a few seconds of dead air, or maybe
I get all cranky about something. You know, really in
the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter, you know,
but you turn on the news, you see stories, you
(08:22):
hear things, you see things on social media, and you
can absolutely get lost if you choose to in the
spiral of But I can't help everybody all the time,
and that can be overwhelming. How do you deal with that?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Yeah, so with a great team in place and just
great friends and family, being able to have that outlet.
But really, knowing the ones the people that we are
able to reach and save. You know, every life lost
or everyone struggling is really difficult for us. But to
have those moments of inspiration and just connection with others
really helps offset that a bit. But certainly there are
(09:00):
days heavier than others, and especially you know, when we
lose someone in our community to suicide, that just the
ripple effect that that has in our community and to
see that firsthand can be really challenging. So just taking
care of our own mental health is important too, so
that we can continue to serve others.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Is it my imagination or are we having more of
these issues with younger and younger people And if that
is true, then how how does your organization deal with
being there for them before it gets to be a
bigger problem.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, so we are seeing that younger and younger kiddos
not only think about suicide but unfortunately act on that,
but even beforehand, you know, really struggling with that anxiety
and depression and just not knowing, you know, the unknown
is really hard for us as adults and certainly for
youth as well, and so we are seeing post pandemic
(09:51):
those rates of anxiety and depression really increase visits to
therapists and unfortunately the hospitals as well, is you know,
both of those are up and so being able to
connect with them. And I think we're very fortunate in
this community to have school districts who truly care about
not only their students but their school community. And so
(10:12):
working with the schools to make sure that we are
able to get in there and provide this education and
information to the students is really important. And also the
staff so that they know how to identify a student
who may be struggling, and then if they do identify
that student, you know, where can we make sure to
get them the help that they need. And the kids
are really you know, youth are very open to this
(10:35):
conversation and to the information. They want to help, you know,
and we try and approach it because it can be
very scary and difficult topic. So we try and approach
it in a more hopeful way and with our delivery
and so just making it something that they can talk about.
We you know, I'm always encouraged by this generation and
I do believe it's you know, our duty to help
them and to really pave the way for them. And
(10:58):
this is a small way in doing that, and they're
open to talking about mental health. They want to help
each other and others.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
So we have a chance for you to be a
part of this incredibly impactful evening coming up next week here,
not next week, next month, on September twelfth. That's a Thursday, Thursday,
September twelfth, the Steel House, Omaha. It's a Time for
Hope and Healing, a night to remember, September twelfth at
the Steelhouse Downtown, a fundraiser for the Kim Foundation. All
(11:26):
the details are online at the Kimfoundation dot org. The
Kimfoundation dot org. Is there a phone number of people
can call to get tickets.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yeah, you can call four zero two eight nine to
one six ' nine one one, or like you said,
just go online and you can purchase seats. And they're
still sponsorships available as well.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Four oh two eight nine one six nine one one
to call for more information. They get your tickets for
a Time for Hope and Healing Thursday, September twelfth the
Steel House, Omaha, or again online at the Kimfoundation dot org.
But I want to give away a pair of tickets
right now. Yeah, absolutely for this We want you to
be there, so I'm gonna let the song play here
(12:09):
for a moment, and we'll also be there for those
listening online going, Hey, how do I win if I'm
like forty five seconds behind live here and I don't
get a chance to win. So we'll take caller number
fifty fifty.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Okay, let's do it.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Right now at four oh two five five eight eleven ten.
That's four oh two five five eight eleven ten. Caller
fifty wins a pair of tickets to this event September
twelfth at Steelhouse. If you're not caller fifty, go to
the Kimfoundation dot org. Julia heebin Stride, Executive director of
the Kim Foundation, I'm so excited to be part of
(12:44):
this event. I'm pushing my friend Brian Mastery from WWT
six to the side for a moment and joining John
Andrassic on stage not to sing thank Goodness, but to
help him tell his story about his incredible music and
the tie in here to mental health and suicide awareness.
It's gonna be a great night and we're gonna hear
this song and be singing it with him. I can't wait.
(13:06):
This is fire for Fighting's biggest hit. Superman on eleven
ten kfab.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I can't stand to fly. I'm not the night. I'm
just to fine. The better part of me hum more
than a bed. Ho'm more than a fly, more than
(13:33):
some pretty fast beside a train. And it's naught easy,
Sup Be me? Scott Fortes Morning's nine to eleven Our
News Radio, eleven ten kfab
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