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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to the Roy Wett Show here on News
Talk five sixty k l V I heard every Sunday
from noon to one, heard any time and can be
streamed live on the iHeartRadio app, as well as Apple
podcasts and Android podcasts. And I have with me the one,
the only, Sarah Wells, who is now the president of
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Junior League. Welcome to the show, Sarah well.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Roy.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
We really appreciate it, and we love talking about everything
Junior League and how we support Southeast Texas because that's
our favorite thing.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Well, and I'll tell you Junior League oftentimes, I've heard
about Junior League and YMBL in the same breath because
they're both huge organizations that give back so much to
Southeast Texas and involved so many Southeast Tech suns in
the process. But for people people that are unfamiliar with
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Junior League, let's give the five thousand foot view of
what Junior League is.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
So, Junior League is an international association of women that
is meant to build women's leadership through civic engagement and
through community service, so that those are the two pillars
that we really focus on. And we are over four
hundred women locally that believe in making Southeast Texas better
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and empowering women through the process. But we are over
almost two million women strong worldwide, and so that's so powerful.
When there's something that is happening in our communities, we
can rally the support of two million women worldwide to
support what's happening locally, and that's very important both to
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the leadership of women and our local communities that we
believe in so much.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Well, it's an international network, but most of the money right.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Here, oh for sure, all of our money that we
raise goes right back into Southeast Texas. We like to
call ourselves an incubator of different nonprofits. A lot of
the nonprofits that you know and love started as a
project of the Junior League of Beaumont, and as they
grew legs and had their own support network, we send
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them out into the community and we still support them
and we still are actively involved with them. The Children's
Museum is a great example of that. Before the Children's
Museum had walls, that was a Junior League project with
ladies that just believed that this is something that we
want in our hometown, we want for our community, and
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they created it and now it has its own border
directors and is flourishing and we couldn't be prouder of
that project living its own life.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Well it is and and again that's grown so much.
But like so many things that Junior League has done
here in Beaumont, they've become mainstays events and they also
raise lots of funds, so they're fun, but they raise
funds that stay locally that as you pointed out, many
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different charitable organizations have benefited from and new ones continue to.
So let's talk about some of those events and if
women and I want to spend a little bit of
time by towards the end on if women that are
interested in being a part of it, of course, So
what do y'all have coming up?
Speaker 4 (03:41):
So coming up the first thing, we are just about
to kick off our year. Our year does follow the
school year for practical purposes. So one of our first
events that we're having is a new event that is
part of our international agency of AHLI and that is
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Find the Good and the mission I Find the Good Day.
It'll be September eighteenth, It's a Thursday, and it is
finding the good in your members, in your community and
things to highlight that With that said, the way that
we are doing celebrating are Find the Good. This year
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at each league highlights their community in the way that
best fits their community. We are going to be highlighting
it the Saturday before, which will be September thirteenth, and
we will have women all over our community interacting with
different nonprofits that we work with.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
One of them is Market to Hope.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
We just really our members thrive and love working with
Market to Hope. It is a grocery store that you
can come and utilize that we pardon me. We love
supporting them through donations but also through volunteer and service hours.
The other thing that we'll be doing that day is
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will be at the Farmers Market doing the Kids Zone.
Through our grants that we give out, we have granted
the funding for the entire year for the farmers Market.
So the second Saturday, which will be that Find the
Good Day Saturday, you can come with your kids. There'll
be a kid Zone activity in addition to your marketing
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and enjoying the Farmer's Market, which is such a great
resource for our community. It supports our farmers, it supports
our families. It's also a place where you can use
your snap benefits and you can double your funding with
your Snap benefits, so you can go, you can shop
with that, you can have that kid Zone activity that
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will be sponsored by the Junior League of Beaumont as well.
And that's just a few of the pieces that we'll
be doing that. We have more to come, so definitely
follow on our social media. There's going to be a
lot of information on our social media to find the good,
to really highlight the good in the women of the
Junior League as well as the good in our Southeast
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Texas community.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Well, you know, y'all, the events that you host, how
you bring people together, how large your local chapter is,
how diverse your local chapter is, Yes, t Expoma and
I think that's a really positive component of it. So
for ladies that are out there, young ladies and middle
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aged ladies, you know, I don't know. I don't think
there's an age requirement, right.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
There is only an age minimum, so you do need
to be twenty one. It is for adult women, so
that is the only minimum. There's no maximum. And we
are so excited to really see the diversity of so
much our membership.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
It is women of all ages.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Women are finding that once they we love our young members,
we love our middle aged members, and we love our
old older women who don't have children in the home,
are maybe retired, have more time to give back to
the community and make those connections with women like minded women.
So the only requirement is believing in Southeast Texas and
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believing in women's leadership.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
So how would they go about finding out if they
wanted to, if they were interested in membership?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
So when our membership push is usually towards the end
of the school year, so that April timeframe. But you
can definitely go to our website now it's Junior League
Beaumont dot org Join and that you can go on
and send in information there and we'll reach back out
to you when that membership pushes is coming through well.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
And with that, so there's two components that I wanted
to address, and the last one is you know, y'all
do these grants? So if you're a five oh one,
c three, y'all do these twice a year? Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
We do these twice a year. Yes, So there are
calf grants and you can also on Junior League Beaumont
dot org. You can go and apply and we have
in my time in the League. We've just seen the
amount of money that we've been able to grant increase
over and over and over again, and so that is
a great way for nonprofits that maybe don't have the
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manpower of the Junior League that can get that funding.
So they can apply and it is on the spectrum
of grants. It's one of the shorter grants, so they
can apply for that. And we have grants that are
in our local schools, in our local nonprofits.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
We have.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Nonprofits both in Southeast Texas and throughout the excuse me
in Beaumont and throughout Southeast Texas.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Sarah, we're in our last minute, but as always, I
know you're gonna have Dancing with the Stars coming up
after the first of the year, but for those contestants,
they'll be starting sooner than that, which.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Is a name will.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Yes, Yes, we're starting year ten. So we're so excited
about that. The date for that will be February twentieth,
and so we're thrilled to have our stars from from
year one, we had Roy West, which we still are
shocks that y'all said yes that first year when you didn't.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Know what we were doing.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
But we were thrilled to have that, and before that,
we've got our Main Street Market which is on December
fourth through sixth, which is a great shopping experience, and
then Lan Yap which is our newest fundraiser, which it
means a little something extra and it definitely is well.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
You know, Junior League has been making a big difference
for decades now and it continues to and I feel
like there is additional momentum. And you know, there's probably
as many women as I don't know how many, but
y'all got a lot of women and they see it
seems to be growing, and I see the membership change,
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you know, and I'm just, I'm just I think it's
a great thing for Beaumont, great thing for Southeast Texas.
It's a great way for women to get involved in
the community. If whatever is going on, they can join
with a group of women that understand.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Yes, definitely, we're very proud of our membership and starting
year seventy nine, we stand on the shoulders of giants.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
But the best is yet to come.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
And the fire that I see in the women is
truly just inspirational. They believe in change, they believe in
making Beaumont the best it can be. And we just
stand together and we're ready to meet the needs of
our community.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Well, I want to throw out you were the event
chair for Dancing with the Stars ten years ago, so
you've been thoroughly committed the Junior League for many years.
I applaud you. I applaud your leadership not just in
Junior League but across the community because you do so
much to lean into the city and to the community
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to help and you and Seth and I'm just grateful
for y'all's commitment to Beaumont and in the website again.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
At Junior League Beaumont dot org.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
All right, Sarah, we're about out of the time, but
I sure thank you and look forward to the upcoming
events and I will be seeing you.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Roy.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
All right, you're listening to the Roy West Show here
on News Talk five sixty k the and heard every
Sunday noon to one, but you can check us out
anytime on the free iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or Android podcast.
And I have with me the newest president of the
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Rotary of Beaumont Club, Uliana Trelowski. And Uliana welcome to
the show.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Thank you, Roy. I'm excited to be on here.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Well, Rotary does so much and most people are familiar
with it, but there may be some listeners out there
that aren't completely familiar with it are how they can
get involved here locally?
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Okay, Yeah, So the Rotary Club of Beaumont is one
of seventy two thousand clubs all over the world with
well over two million members. The Rotary Club was started
in nineteen oh eight in Chicago. It's been around for
a long time. It is a service organization but also
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offers opportunities to network among business people because the membership
of Rotary Clubs tends to be professionals who are working
in various areas of industry. And I stress it's a
service organization because Rotary is very involved on the global level,
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promoting many projects to build a better world, to promote peace,
to support maternal and child health, literacy, education, environment conflict resolution,
economic development, you name it well.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
And also every week with besides the networking that you
get to do, you usually hear somebody from the community
or the visiting the community that's you need to know about.
Some of the time you didn't know you needed to
know about it.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Yeah, definitely, And you know, the Rotary Club of Beaumont
was founded in nineteen thirteen, So when you said that
I was the most recent president, I'm the most recent
president in a very long line of president.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Right.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
We have a long tradition in our club. We meet
on Wednesdays at noon in the Elegante Hotel and we
always have a speaker. Like you said, at our meetings,
we try to have speakers that are interesting to our membership.
They can be government officials, they can be corporate leaders,
they can be community leaders. We've had everything from the
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executive director of the Lectcher's Theater tell us about the
upcoming season, to just recently this week, we had Shaquina
Nobles from the City of Beaumont. She's the emergency.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Management Coordinator. I didn't know the name.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
She had a great presentation explaining to us what the
emergency Management coordinator does and what the different areas of
their activity are. Yeah, we get the opportunity to hear
from some really neat speakers.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Yeah. Well, and I know that this is something that
when you get involved in you have an opportunity to
give back to the community in other ways through some
volunteer efforts. But it's like so many other things that
you get involved in with local groups. Is you get
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so much more than you give and clearly you're the members,
which I'm a member of the club, so you are
very active in the community and many you know, so
if you if you're a part, if you're thinking about it,
it's a great way to get involved because you're going
to know some people that are there when you walk
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in and all likely.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Definitely, we are what's called a large club. The average
rotary club is usually pretty small, about thirty to forty people,
but there are some clubs that are referred to as
large clubs. And we have more than two members, so
you have a chance to visit with a lot of
business leaders in the area. We are always looking for
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members and one thing that we've started that is kind
of a new thing is if you get the Beaumont
Enterprise on Sundays. In the Sunday Enterprise, they are now
running a little story featuring who will be the upcoming
speaker at the Wednesday meeting. They also have information that
you can go online to our website and you can
register to come as a guest to our meeting. If
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you want to hear the speaker and you're not a rotarian.
We are open to having people come and visit us,
and then if they like what they see and they
want to get involved and join Rotary, we're more than
happy to discuss membership with them.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Well. And you know, it's always fun, it's always educational,
and you're and you're getting a lunch out of the
deal too. I mean, it is something you pay for.
But it is a weekly event. So let's talk about
the time and location.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
So it's Wednesdays at noon at the Elegante Hotel in
the big ballroom that's in the back. Lunch is twenty
dollars a person. It's a buffet lunch, and we have
sort of a what I would call a formal style
to the meeting. It usually starts at noon. People come
a little bit earlier to get lunch. You can come
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at eleven forty five if you want to grab lunch.
We don't take ourselves too seriously. There's a lot of
joking around that goes on, but we do have a
formal program that begins the same way every week, and
then we have our speaker and we have a lot
of committee announcements and discussion about activities that are coming
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up or projects that we're working on. So, yeah, if
you want to join, if you're listening, we would love
to have you join, And you can find us online.
It's the Murdery Club of Beaumont. If you google that,
you'll get our website and on the website you will
see information about how you can come and visit us.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Well, in Uliana, you've been involved in the community for
a long time, so in your work you're involved in
the community, but also but there, what got you involved
with Rotary and how did you end up becoming the president.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Well, that's a great story, Roy, You know, I joined
the club in two thousand and four when I first
became the executive director of Habitat for Humanity and wanted
to network, wanted to meet people and get more involved
and meet more people.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
So I joined.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
And it's kind of a common story when you talk
to people, they say, I joined because I wanted to
meet people in network, and I stayed because I made
so many friends and I really believed in the mission.
So it really is an amazing organization. I've made so
many great friends through Rotary, and I believe strongly in
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the mission of Rotary and the great service work that
we do here locally in the community and abroad well.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
And it does one hundred and twelve years here in
Beaumont alone, and so you know there's cases of generational
membership within families. Yeah, and so it is a really
good way in Beaumont, and I'm sure most communities to
get acquainted with other people and oftentimes the people that
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are involved in Rotary and that the ten or people
that are involved in the community and care about the community.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
It's true, and you're a Rotarian anywhere in the world.
If you're a member of Rotary and you go somewhere
another country, another state, another city, you look up the
Rotary Club, you can go to their meeting and they
will welcome you with open arms. I know that people
who relocate to the community for work, they'll find us
and they'll say, oh, I'm a Rotarian, I was a
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member where I lived before, and we welcome them. And
it's a great fealing. You can be in Italy and
find a Rotary meeting and go. You might not understand them,
but you know you can hang out with it.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
That's it. And in the mere fact that there it's
a worldwide organization points to the fact that it does
meet a need wherever that is because it's about connecting
with others and also getting informed and an avenue to
be able to give back exactly.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
We give back locally. We're involved with Martin Elementary School
where we do literacy programs with the students, but we
also provide support to expectant mothers in Honduras. We're working
with rotary clubs in Honduras. We send layette bags to
expectant mothers with supplies they will need. So we're working
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here in our neighborhood and we're working abroad. And that's
how all rotary clubs are well.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
And I know that here coming up working with Sleeping
Heavenly Peace. They're on two different occasions one day one
Saturday of building beds and another delivering them. So there
is ample opportunity to participate in other activities that you're
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going to meet a lot of other people as well. Yeah,
we're about out of time. Let's share the contact one more.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
Time, Rotary Club of Beaumont.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Just google it.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
You can find the website that way and that's the
best way to get in touch and to find out
when our meetings are and come and join us Wednesdays
at noon at the Elegante Hotel.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
All right, thank you so much, Eleiana. We will talk soon.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Thank you, Roy all the best.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
You're listening to the Roy West Show. And man, we
have another great guests, Dana Simmons of Dana Simmons real
Estate and everybody Knows, and she also has a shares
a radio show, a different radio show on klv iHeart Radio.
But I invited her to be a guest this week
because real estate is such an important part of everybody's life,
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especially when you're a kid. Where you grow up matters,
but when you become adult, where you're going to live
and whether you're going to acquire real estate. And welcome
back to the show, Dana.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Great, it's such a pleasure.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
It's been a little bit, but I really appreciate the
opportunity to visit with you and be on your show.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Well, I'm glad to have you. And this is if
there's not it is always a unique time in real estate.
It's kind of like there's never a normal time in
real estate anymore. And certainly, but how you navigate through
there and the professional that you work with really matters
on the type of experience you're to have. So you
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and your team do a remarkable job, whether people are
looking to buy or sell. And I want you to
explain to customers and listeners what it is, what services
y'all offer.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
Sure, so I think that's very important. What you said,
experience does matter. I've been doing this almost thirty years,
and through that time the market has changed. I used
to could kind of predict what was going to happen. Well,
in the last five years, we've learned no predictions. You
can't predict anymore. You can forecast a little based on
the past. You forecast based on that and you do
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the best you can. But for me, I started a
team brokerage about five years ago.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I saw a need.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
We don't have any other brokerage like it in Southeast Texas.
I actually was modeling this with another broker even well
before that. I was with Coole Banker for twenty three years.
So enjoyed working with Annskogin and San Mayskogan. They're great people.
Saw the need to have a team brokerage, and so
what that means is that's an expanded version of what
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a real estate company looks like. We have what's called
ISAs inside service agents, and people are like, how does
that make you different. Well, they're licensed rintres who are
available a to eight ninety through Saturday and then also
on Sunday upon appointment in order to access information for
anyone who has questions about any listing listed about anyone,
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so they're available to be able.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
To walk a client through that.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
The other thing we have is we have a whole
listing team.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
It's not just me.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Katie Martin's one of our listing agents. We have a
transaction coordinator. We have two listing assistants. So for us,
it's a team effort and our buyer team, our buyer
agent team is separate from our listing team, so a
client can know that if they're working with our office
as a seller, our company on the list sting side
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is only going to work for them. We would have
a separate buyer agent that would work for the buyer.
And so we have about twenty of us for my team,
and we all work together with the same goal of
guiding clients through the process to help them have a
seamless transaction.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
And that's the goal.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Well, and I know that clearly they'll do a great
job with that. And oftentimes when people get in the
real estate market, everybody buys their first house, and sometimes
they have family close by that has experienced that gives
them direction. But sometimes that experience was from fifteen years ago,
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which is a little bit different than it is buying
a house today. So you know, getting good information on
how the market is today is invaluable. And also availability,
and that's one thing that your team brings because oftentimes,
you know, people's works schedule are certainly different than how
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it used to be traditionally, which used to be now
getting several years ago.
Speaker 6 (26:07):
But nevertheless, yeah, absolutely, for us, it's about being available
and we have someone available, like I was saying, with
our ISAs eight to eight every day, but also we
have a buyer agent team so that there is always
someone available to show house. Yesterday afternoon on one of
our listings, someone wanted to see it right then and
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so we were able to get one of our buyer's agents.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
It's on what we call team call to be able
to show it to them.
Speaker 6 (26:34):
An availability is critical, but also you talked about the
information changing all the time.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
You're exactly right. You're having to.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
Shift and change how you do business and what the
consumer needs. And so if you're doing real estate the
way you did twenty years ago, you're behind the eight
ball because it's constantly changing and if you're not willing
to evolve and shift and change. And the motto that
we have here is how do we do it better?
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How do we do it better for the client and
customer for their experience. And so that's one of the
things that we're not afraid to do, is to continually
shift to doing it better. And when you own your
own company, you can do that.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
So I'm a.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
Local brokerage that I make the decisions here locally. I've
lived your my entire life. I know our community, and
I make every decision based on that, and so I
have complete control on what I do, how I do it,
and how we can make sure our customers receive top
notch customer service well.
Speaker 7 (27:39):
And one of the things that leads to the kind
of success that you and your brokerage has enjoyed is
the experience that the customers, the clients.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Have because a lot of times when people buy a
house is they may stay in the house. They may
stay just five years, but sometimes people stay thirty years.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
YEA.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
So how you get business, how your team gets businesses
through that word of mouth because of the experience people have,
and so you know, y'all make sure that customers come first.
Speaker 6 (28:13):
We do, and I think our Google refews reflect that.
So if there's anyone out there who is thinking about
buying or selling, they.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Need to interview.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
I would interview more than one person, and I would say,
go check out their Google reviews. One of the things
that we all do. Anytime I need to buy something
or search for something, where do I go? I go
to Google and see what everyone thinks about it, because
I want to hear what other people are saying, and
so searching that way is one way to be able
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to see how effective is the person that you're looking at.
But then just sitting there and having a conversation, whether
you're going to be working with them as a buyer
or as a seller, you really should interview them and
say what does it look like. Our buyers come in
for a buyer consultation, we have a book that shows
them what the process looks like. We walk them through
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step by step. Sellers the same thing. We've produced our
own book that says here's what the process looks like.
So for us, it's critical to give the client the
information they need to know what that's going to look like.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Well, and for somebody out there right now that is
thinking they may want to buy or sell, and sometimes
it could be they're not sure, you know, whether they
want to do it next month or wait a year.
That's something you and your team can help people with.
And you're happy to help people with. Correct.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
Oh, absolutely, and so you don't have to be ready today,
excuse me. It's about educating the person on what does
that transaction look like, starting maybe today, but then continuing
to say, okay, first step if you're a buyers to
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get approved and so just like you're on our list
of who we recommend because your team provides excellent service
to our clients as well. So the first step may
be that they call your office and start that process.
And then they may not be ready immediately, and so
it may be that you guys have to walk them
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through a few things before they get to the point
that they can be ready. And so we're going to
prepare them. Okay, once this is ready, these are the
next steps. So some people say, well, I'm not ready
for a year, and I'm like, that's okay, let us
walk you through. Of course, this happens when we get
on video.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Well, it's not a problem. But I do think what
you're saying is so correct because it's one of your
bigger life decisions. So having as much information to be
able to think about it really can make you have
less sleepless nights with anxiety overdoing something that is, you know,
life changing because where we spend our uh you know
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where we live, we spend a lot of time there.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
Absolutely, and the same thing on the selling process. You know,
some people are like, well, I'm not going to be
ready to sell to the next year, but there may
be some decisions you make today, tomorrow, in the next
month that help you get ready for that next year.
So we are never in a hurry. We're always about
giving you the best information you need to help you
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make a wise decision.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
How people get in touch with you. We're about out
of time here.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
Danasimmons real Estate dot Com or four O nine eight
six sixteen.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Danus Simmons Dana Simmons real Estate where they've been doing
real estate thirty years, making a difference right here in
all of Southeast Texas. Thank you so much for being
on the show today.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Thank you Roy.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Talk to you, Sin Okay. Good names Southeast Texas. You're
listening into the Roy West Show and we are back
and we've got another great guest. We've got Lady with
Jani's Love and it is a foundation to help those
with sickle cell anina. Welcome to the show. Thank you,
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absolutely so. Tell people a little bit about the origin
of Jania's Love and what it is y'all are doing,
and you've got an upcoming event.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Yes, sir, we do, okay.
Speaker 8 (32:31):
Jana's Love was founded following the death of my granddaughter
Jania La Da, who suffered from SIKA cel disease.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
She was.
Speaker 8 (32:42):
She passed away on May seventh of twenty fifteen at
the age of seven, after which I started the foundation,
Jania's Love. It's a five oh one C three nonprofit
organization to fight for sickle cel disease. We have been
in operation for at least ten years and we plan
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on continuing throughout the lifetime. Jenaia's debt could have been
prevented with proper care and more awareness.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
To the CIC of cel disease.
Speaker 8 (33:16):
We have an upcoming walk to build to build sponsors,
to build funds and awareness for a CIC of sale
disease on September thirteenth, twenty twenty five, beginning at seven
thirty is the lineup. The walk will start from eight
to ten and then we'll host a small event and
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where you can hear from loved ones with cick of
Sale disease as well as Vertex, which is a pharmaceutical
and other sponsors that will be speaking.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Well.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
And so I understand what motivated Jen, certainly the tragic
death of your granddaughter. And tell me about the process
over the last ten years, because it certainly has grown
over that time. And in that process that you went through,
the things that you've been able to do. And uh,
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and I know awareness and fundraising, but also in terms
of where you hope to focus that the money that
you raise.
Speaker 8 (34:25):
Okay, I have started out. I started out funding my
own foundation. I work for a social security administration for
twenty five years.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
I retired.
Speaker 8 (34:37):
Once I retired, it became a little harder to fund
the foundation. So at that time. So now which is
why we're out here asking for donations and sponsors, because
we are in the process of trying to form a
wellness center which will serve the public and serve the
sicker sell community in ways where we can avoid hospital
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visits and avoid a lot of them getting sick because
we all inform them on nutrition and better ways to
take care of themselves. We can give them information on
new studies and advancements that.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Have been occurred.
Speaker 8 (35:16):
I am a member of the sica Cel Consortium and Atlanta,
Georgia partner, and I've gone to several conferences in Atlanta
and Orlando, Florida to learn more about caregivers and cica
cel and all the different technologies and stuff that is
out now to help sic of sell individuals. So my
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goal is to reach as many people as I can
to give them this information in order to better get
a better quality of life and live longer and healthier.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Well, and you know, reading a little bit about sickle cell,
it is it's something somebody can prevent. It's something people
are born with, right and and it's not something that
you're gonna ever just that doesn't seem to go away
but you But so the idea is to manage it
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as effectively as possible to prevent uh uh, whether it's
pain and infections or untimely DIDs, right, absolutely and uh
and and clearly I think education is probably a big
part of that as well as uh services being available
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to the public. So uh so is that something you've have?
You seen models in other cities that have worked well
at that.
Speaker 8 (36:44):
Yes, I work along with other CICA CEL partners and
there is many services available. The problem is people have
lack of knowledge of sika cel disease and they look
at it as the common coal. It is very serious,
very critical. There are people dropping dead that over exert
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their body and.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
They have just the trait of sick of cell.
Speaker 8 (37:10):
So what we're trying to do is prevent them from
having untimely that make them more aware of the disease
they have, make the parents more aware, the individuals.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
It needs to be in schools.
Speaker 8 (37:25):
And everywhere so that everyone can be aware of what's
going on with their life, their body, if they have
sick of cell, how to take care of it, how
to hydrate, how to better prepare for a lone life?
Speaker 1 (37:38):
And are there local doctors that specialize in treating this.
Speaker 8 (37:44):
The doctors that specializes in treating sick of CEL are
mostly hematologists in Beaumont. There is adult hematologists that is known. However,
for children, I think most of them go to Texas
Children or to Saint Jude Hospital and they have to
travel four ways to get treatments.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
So we're trying to.
Speaker 8 (38:09):
Help them get better, uh, you know transportation, be able
to reach the doctors, you know, and just give them
a better quality of life.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Well, and let's talk about how people can sign up
for this and how they can sponsor, how they can
reach out, uh, reach out directly to you or what
what source do they use?
Speaker 8 (38:34):
Okay, we have a website is Jenia's love dot org.
You can sign up online, you can donate. Our office
is located at seven hundred Narch Street, which is the
foundation for Saudeast Texas. You can sign up there as well.
You can call four on nine five, two, seven, twenty three,
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twenty three and sign up. There are multiple ways to
sign up. We're not turning anyone around. You can sign
up early morning on the day of the walk.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
That is at the event center in downtown where the
lake is at Crockett Street.
Speaker 8 (39:15):
Correct, Yes, right next to the riverside grill where the
horseshoe is. We'll be in that parking lot and that's
where the event will be held and that's where everything
will begin.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Well, I know that This has been a passion for
you and you've made great strides and you are looking
to expand the foundation so that others can you can
reach more people and educate more people as well as
provide additional services. So I want to thank you for that.
And folks, they have a Facebook page as well besides
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the website, so be sure to check them out. And
we are out of time, but thank you so much
for being on today.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Thank you. I appreciate your time. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Yes, ma'am. Okay, we are back with the Roy West
Show here on News Talk five sixty kl the In
the first segment, we were talking to Sarah Wells with
the Junior League of Beaumont and folks, the Junior League
does so much good here in Southeast Texas and I
just want to acknowledge them. And you know, if you're
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female and you're interested in getting involved in the community,
they're a great way to do that. Then I was
talking to Uliana Trilowski with the Boma Rotary Club and
they have weekly chapter meetings at the Elegante Lunch and
a program as well as giving back to the community
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and lots of different programs. So when you see the
flags on national holidays. They with the Boy Scouts do
that as well. Then I was talking with Dana Simmons
of Dana Simmons real Estate, who has been in the
real estate business a long time and many people have
seen her signs. She talked about the local real estate
market and what is happening here in Beaumont. And then
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I talked to Letty Bucksy with for walk for Sickle
Cell that is coming up upcoming. She is created a
not for profit to inform people about sickle cell anemia
and also provide them additional resources. Folks, you can listen
to the Roy West Show every Sunday from noon to
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one right here on News Talk five sixty klv R.
You can download the free iHeart Radio app and catch
the show live, or you can check out any of
our show their podcast through iHeart Radio, also Apple podcasts
and Android podcasts. And Folks, when things are happening in
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Southeast Texas and be sure to listen in because I
like to interview all those organists that are making Southeast
Texas a better place to live. And until we talk again,
God bless you off
You're listening to the Roy Wett Show here on News
Talk five sixty k l V I heard every Sunday
from noon to one, heard any time and can be
streamed live on the iHeartRadio app, as well as Apple
podcasts and Android podcasts. And I have with me the one,
the only, Sarah Wells, who is now the president of
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Junior League. Welcome to the show, Sarah well.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Roy.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
We really appreciate it, and we love talking about everything
Junior League and how we support Southeast Texas because that's
our favorite thing.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Well, and I'll tell you Junior League oftentimes, I've heard
about Junior League and YMBL in the same breath because
they're both huge organizations that give back so much to
Southeast Texas and involved so many Southeast Tech suns in
the process. But for people people that are unfamiliar with
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Junior League, let's give the five thousand foot view of
what Junior League is.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
So, Junior League is an international association of women that
is meant to build women's leadership through civic engagement and
through community service, so that those are the two pillars
that we really focus on. And we are over four
hundred women locally that believe in making Southeast Texas better
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and empowering women through the process. But we are over
almost two million women strong worldwide, and so that's so powerful.
When there's something that is happening in our communities, we
can rally the support of two million women worldwide to
support what's happening locally, and that's very important both to
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the leadership of women and our local communities that we
believe in so much.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Well, it's an international network, but most of the money right.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Here, oh for sure, all of our money that we
raise goes right back into Southeast Texas. We like to
call ourselves an incubator of different nonprofits. A lot of
the nonprofits that you know and love started as a
project of the Junior League of Beaumont, and as they
grew legs and had their own support network, we send
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them out into the community and we still support them
and we still are actively involved with them. The Children's
Museum is a great example of that. Before the Children's
Museum had walls, that was a Junior League project with
ladies that just believed that this is something that we
want in our hometown, we want for our community, and
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they created it and now it has its own border
directors and is flourishing and we couldn't be prouder of
that project living its own life.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Well it is and and again that's grown so much.
But like so many things that Junior League has done
here in Beaumont, they've become mainstays events and they also
raise lots of funds, so they're fun, but they raise
funds that stay locally that as you pointed out, many
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different charitable organizations have benefited from and new ones continue to.
So let's talk about some of those events and if
women and I want to spend a little bit of
time by towards the end on if women that are
interested in being a part of it, of course, So
what do y'all have coming up?
Speaker 4 (03:41):
So coming up the first thing, we are just about
to kick off our year. Our year does follow the
school year for practical purposes. So one of our first
events that we're having is a new event that is
part of our international agency of AHLI and that is
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Find the Good and the mission I Find the Good Day.
It'll be September eighteenth, It's a Thursday, and it is
finding the good in your members, in your community and
things to highlight that With that said, the way that
we are doing celebrating are Find the Good. This year
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at each league highlights their community in the way that
best fits their community. We are going to be highlighting
it the Saturday before, which will be September thirteenth, and
we will have women all over our community interacting with
different nonprofits that we work with.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
One of them is Market to Hope.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
We just really our members thrive and love working with
Market to Hope. It is a grocery store that you
can come and utilize that we pardon me. We love
supporting them through donations but also through volunteer and service hours.
The other thing that we'll be doing that day is
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will be at the Farmers Market doing the Kids Zone.
Through our grants that we give out, we have granted
the funding for the entire year for the farmers Market.
So the second Saturday, which will be that Find the
Good Day Saturday, you can come with your kids. There'll
be a kid Zone activity in addition to your marketing
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and enjoying the Farmer's Market, which is such a great
resource for our community. It supports our farmers, it supports
our families. It's also a place where you can use
your snap benefits and you can double your funding with
your Snap benefits, so you can go, you can shop
with that, you can have that kid Zone activity that
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will be sponsored by the Junior League of Beaumont as well.
And that's just a few of the pieces that we'll
be doing that. We have more to come, so definitely
follow on our social media. There's going to be a
lot of information on our social media to find the good,
to really highlight the good in the women of the
Junior League as well as the good in our Southeast
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Texas community.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Well, you know, y'all, the events that you host, how
you bring people together, how large your local chapter is,
how diverse your local chapter is, Yes, t Expoma and
I think that's a really positive component of it. So
for ladies that are out there, young ladies and middle
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aged ladies, you know, I don't know. I don't think
there's an age requirement, right.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
There is only an age minimum, so you do need
to be twenty one. It is for adult women, so
that is the only minimum. There's no maximum. And we
are so excited to really see the diversity of so
much our membership.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
It is women of all ages.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Women are finding that once they we love our young members,
we love our middle aged members, and we love our
old older women who don't have children in the home,
are maybe retired, have more time to give back to
the community and make those connections with women like minded women.
So the only requirement is believing in Southeast Texas and
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believing in women's leadership.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
So how would they go about finding out if they
wanted to, if they were interested in membership?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
So when our membership push is usually towards the end
of the school year, so that April timeframe. But you
can definitely go to our website now it's Junior League
Beaumont dot org Join and that you can go on
and send in information there and we'll reach back out
to you when that membership pushes is coming through well.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
And with that, so there's two components that I wanted
to address, and the last one is you know, y'all
do these grants? So if you're a five oh one,
c three, y'all do these twice a year? Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
We do these twice a year. Yes, So there are
calf grants and you can also on Junior League Beaumont
dot org. You can go and apply and we have
in my time in the League. We've just seen the
amount of money that we've been able to grant increase
over and over and over again, and so that is
a great way for nonprofits that maybe don't have the
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manpower of the Junior League that can get that funding.
So they can apply and it is on the spectrum
of grants. It's one of the shorter grants, so they
can apply for that. And we have grants that are
in our local schools, in our local nonprofits.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
We have.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Nonprofits both in Southeast Texas and throughout the excuse me
in Beaumont and throughout Southeast Texas.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Sarah, we're in our last minute, but as always, I
know you're gonna have Dancing with the Stars coming up
after the first of the year, but for those contestants,
they'll be starting sooner than that, which.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Is a name will.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Yes, Yes, we're starting year ten. So we're so excited
about that. The date for that will be February twentieth,
and so we're thrilled to have our stars from from
year one, we had Roy West, which we still are
shocks that y'all said yes that first year when you didn't.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Know what we were doing.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
But we were thrilled to have that, and before that,
we've got our Main Street Market which is on December
fourth through sixth, which is a great shopping experience, and
then Lan Yap which is our newest fundraiser, which it
means a little something extra and it definitely is well.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
You know, Junior League has been making a big difference
for decades now and it continues to and I feel
like there is additional momentum. And you know, there's probably
as many women as I don't know how many, but
y'all got a lot of women and they see it
seems to be growing, and I see the membership change,
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you know, and I'm just, I'm just I think it's
a great thing for Beaumont, great thing for Southeast Texas.
It's a great way for women to get involved in
the community. If whatever is going on, they can join
with a group of women that understand.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Yes, definitely, we're very proud of our membership and starting
year seventy nine, we stand on the shoulders of giants.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
But the best is yet to come.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
And the fire that I see in the women is
truly just inspirational. They believe in change, they believe in
making Beaumont the best it can be. And we just
stand together and we're ready to meet the needs of
our community.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Well, I want to throw out you were the event
chair for Dancing with the Stars ten years ago, so
you've been thoroughly committed the Junior League for many years.
I applaud you. I applaud your leadership not just in
Junior League but across the community because you do so
much to lean into the city and to the community
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to help and you and Seth and I'm just grateful
for y'all's commitment to Beaumont and in the website again.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
At Junior League Beaumont dot org.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
All right, Sarah, we're about out of the time, but
I sure thank you and look forward to the upcoming
events and I will be seeing you.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Roy.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
All right, you're listening to the Roy West Show here
on News Talk five sixty k the and heard every
Sunday noon to one, but you can check us out
anytime on the free iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or Android podcast.
And I have with me the newest president of the
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Rotary of Beaumont Club, Uliana Trelowski. And Uliana welcome to
the show.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Thank you, Roy. I'm excited to be on here.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Well, Rotary does so much and most people are familiar
with it, but there may be some listeners out there
that aren't completely familiar with it are how they can
get involved here locally?
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Okay, Yeah, So the Rotary Club of Beaumont is one
of seventy two thousand clubs all over the world with
well over two million members. The Rotary Club was started
in nineteen oh eight in Chicago. It's been around for
a long time. It is a service organization but also
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offers opportunities to network among business people because the membership
of Rotary Clubs tends to be professionals who are working
in various areas of industry. And I stress it's a
service organization because Rotary is very involved on the global level,
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promoting many projects to build a better world, to promote peace,
to support maternal and child health, literacy, education, environment conflict resolution,
economic development, you name it well.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
And also every week with besides the networking that you
get to do, you usually hear somebody from the community
or the visiting the community that's you need to know about.
Some of the time you didn't know you needed to
know about it.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Yeah, definitely, And you know, the Rotary Club of Beaumont
was founded in nineteen thirteen, So when you said that
I was the most recent president, I'm the most recent
president in a very long line of president.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Right.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
We have a long tradition in our club. We meet
on Wednesdays at noon in the Elegante Hotel and we
always have a speaker. Like you said, at our meetings,
we try to have speakers that are interesting to our membership.
They can be government officials, they can be corporate leaders,
they can be community leaders. We've had everything from the
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executive director of the Lectcher's Theater tell us about the
upcoming season, to just recently this week, we had Shaquina
Nobles from the City of Beaumont. She's the emergency.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Management Coordinator. I didn't know the name.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
She had a great presentation explaining to us what the
emergency Management coordinator does and what the different areas of
their activity are. Yeah, we get the opportunity to hear
from some really neat speakers.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Yeah. Well, and I know that this is something that
when you get involved in you have an opportunity to
give back to the community in other ways through some
volunteer efforts. But it's like so many other things that
you get involved in with local groups. Is you get
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so much more than you give and clearly you're the members,
which I'm a member of the club, so you are
very active in the community and many you know, so
if you if you're a part, if you're thinking about it,
it's a great way to get involved because you're going
to know some people that are there when you walk
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in and all likely.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Definitely, we are what's called a large club. The average
rotary club is usually pretty small, about thirty to forty people,
but there are some clubs that are referred to as
large clubs. And we have more than two members, so
you have a chance to visit with a lot of
business leaders in the area. We are always looking for
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members and one thing that we've started that is kind
of a new thing is if you get the Beaumont
Enterprise on Sundays. In the Sunday Enterprise, they are now
running a little story featuring who will be the upcoming
speaker at the Wednesday meeting. They also have information that
you can go online to our website and you can
register to come as a guest to our meeting. If
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you want to hear the speaker and you're not a rotarian.
We are open to having people come and visit us,
and then if they like what they see and they
want to get involved and join Rotary, we're more than
happy to discuss membership with them.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Well. And you know, it's always fun, it's always educational,
and you're and you're getting a lunch out of the
deal too. I mean, it is something you pay for.
But it is a weekly event. So let's talk about
the time and location.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
So it's Wednesdays at noon at the Elegante Hotel in
the big ballroom that's in the back. Lunch is twenty
dollars a person. It's a buffet lunch, and we have
sort of a what I would call a formal style
to the meeting. It usually starts at noon. People come
a little bit earlier to get lunch. You can come
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at eleven forty five if you want to grab lunch.
We don't take ourselves too seriously. There's a lot of
joking around that goes on, but we do have a
formal program that begins the same way every week, and
then we have our speaker and we have a lot
of committee announcements and discussion about activities that are coming
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up or projects that we're working on. So, yeah, if
you want to join, if you're listening, we would love
to have you join, And you can find us online.
It's the Murdery Club of Beaumont. If you google that,
you'll get our website and on the website you will
see information about how you can come and visit us.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Well, in Uliana, you've been involved in the community for
a long time, so in your work you're involved in
the community, but also but there, what got you involved
with Rotary and how did you end up becoming the president.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Well, that's a great story, Roy, You know, I joined
the club in two thousand and four when I first
became the executive director of Habitat for Humanity and wanted
to network, wanted to meet people and get more involved
and meet more people.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
So I joined.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
And it's kind of a common story when you talk
to people, they say, I joined because I wanted to
meet people in network, and I stayed because I made
so many friends and I really believed in the mission.
So it really is an amazing organization. I've made so
many great friends through Rotary, and I believe strongly in
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the mission of Rotary and the great service work that
we do here locally in the community and abroad well.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
And it does one hundred and twelve years here in
Beaumont alone, and so you know there's cases of generational
membership within families. Yeah, and so it is a really
good way in Beaumont, and I'm sure most communities to
get acquainted with other people and oftentimes the people that
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are involved in Rotary and that the ten or people
that are involved in the community and care about the community.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
It's true, and you're a Rotarian anywhere in the world.
If you're a member of Rotary and you go somewhere
another country, another state, another city, you look up the
Rotary Club, you can go to their meeting and they
will welcome you with open arms. I know that people
who relocate to the community for work, they'll find us
and they'll say, oh, I'm a Rotarian, I was a
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member where I lived before, and we welcome them. And
it's a great fealing. You can be in Italy and
find a Rotary meeting and go. You might not understand them,
but you know you can hang out with it.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
That's it. And in the mere fact that there it's
a worldwide organization points to the fact that it does
meet a need wherever that is because it's about connecting
with others and also getting informed and an avenue to
be able to give back exactly.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
We give back locally. We're involved with Martin Elementary School
where we do literacy programs with the students, but we
also provide support to expectant mothers in Honduras. We're working
with rotary clubs in Honduras. We send layette bags to
expectant mothers with supplies they will need. So we're working
(20:59):
here in our neighborhood and we're working abroad. And that's
how all rotary clubs are well.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
And I know that here coming up working with Sleeping
Heavenly Peace. They're on two different occasions one day one
Saturday of building beds and another delivering them. So there
is ample opportunity to participate in other activities that you're
(21:27):
going to meet a lot of other people as well. Yeah,
we're about out of time. Let's share the contact one more.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
Time, Rotary Club of Beaumont.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Just google it.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
You can find the website that way and that's the
best way to get in touch and to find out
when our meetings are and come and join us Wednesdays
at noon at the Elegante Hotel.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
All right, thank you so much, Eleiana. We will talk soon.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Thank you, Roy all the best.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
You're listening to the Roy West Show. And man, we
have another great guests, Dana Simmons of Dana Simmons real
Estate and everybody Knows, and she also has a shares
a radio show, a different radio show on klv iHeart Radio.
But I invited her to be a guest this week
because real estate is such an important part of everybody's life,
(22:20):
especially when you're a kid. Where you grow up matters,
but when you become adult, where you're going to live
and whether you're going to acquire real estate. And welcome
back to the show, Dana.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Great, it's such a pleasure.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
It's been a little bit, but I really appreciate the
opportunity to visit with you and be on your show.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Well, I'm glad to have you. And this is if
there's not it is always a unique time in real estate.
It's kind of like there's never a normal time in
real estate anymore. And certainly, but how you navigate through
there and the professional that you work with really matters
on the type of experience you're to have. So you
(23:02):
and your team do a remarkable job, whether people are
looking to buy or sell. And I want you to
explain to customers and listeners what it is, what services
y'all offer.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
Sure, so I think that's very important. What you said,
experience does matter. I've been doing this almost thirty years,
and through that time the market has changed. I used
to could kind of predict what was going to happen. Well,
in the last five years, we've learned no predictions. You
can't predict anymore. You can forecast a little based on
the past. You forecast based on that and you do
(23:37):
the best you can. But for me, I started a
team brokerage about five years ago.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I saw a need.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
We don't have any other brokerage like it in Southeast Texas.
I actually was modeling this with another broker even well
before that. I was with Coole Banker for twenty three years.
So enjoyed working with Annskogin and San Mayskogan. They're great people.
Saw the need to have a team brokerage, and so
what that means is that's an expanded version of what
(24:06):
a real estate company looks like. We have what's called
ISAs inside service agents, and people are like, how does
that make you different. Well, they're licensed rintres who are
available a to eight ninety through Saturday and then also
on Sunday upon appointment in order to access information for
anyone who has questions about any listing listed about anyone,
(24:30):
so they're available to be able.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
To walk a client through that.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
The other thing we have is we have a whole
listing team.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
It's not just me.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Katie Martin's one of our listing agents. We have a
transaction coordinator. We have two listing assistants. So for us,
it's a team effort and our buyer team, our buyer
agent team is separate from our listing team, so a
client can know that if they're working with our office
as a seller, our company on the list sting side
(25:00):
is only going to work for them. We would have
a separate buyer agent that would work for the buyer.
And so we have about twenty of us for my team,
and we all work together with the same goal of
guiding clients through the process to help them have a
seamless transaction.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
And that's the goal.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Well, and I know that clearly they'll do a great
job with that. And oftentimes when people get in the
real estate market, everybody buys their first house, and sometimes
they have family close by that has experienced that gives
them direction. But sometimes that experience was from fifteen years ago,
(25:40):
which is a little bit different than it is buying
a house today. So you know, getting good information on
how the market is today is invaluable. And also availability,
and that's one thing that your team brings because oftentimes,
you know, people's works schedule are certainly different than how
(26:03):
it used to be traditionally, which used to be now
getting several years ago.
Speaker 6 (26:07):
But nevertheless, yeah, absolutely, for us, it's about being available
and we have someone available, like I was saying, with
our ISAs eight to eight every day, but also we
have a buyer agent team so that there is always
someone available to show house. Yesterday afternoon on one of
our listings, someone wanted to see it right then and
(26:28):
so we were able to get one of our buyer's agents.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
It's on what we call team call to be able
to show it to them.
Speaker 6 (26:34):
An availability is critical, but also you talked about the
information changing all the time.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
You're exactly right. You're having to.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
Shift and change how you do business and what the
consumer needs. And so if you're doing real estate the
way you did twenty years ago, you're behind the eight
ball because it's constantly changing and if you're not willing
to evolve and shift and change. And the motto that
we have here is how do we do it better?
(27:02):
How do we do it better for the client and
customer for their experience. And so that's one of the
things that we're not afraid to do, is to continually
shift to doing it better. And when you own your
own company, you can do that.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
So I'm a.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
Local brokerage that I make the decisions here locally. I've
lived your my entire life. I know our community, and
I make every decision based on that, and so I
have complete control on what I do, how I do it,
and how we can make sure our customers receive top
notch customer service well.
Speaker 7 (27:39):
And one of the things that leads to the kind
of success that you and your brokerage has enjoyed is
the experience that the customers, the clients.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Have because a lot of times when people buy a
house is they may stay in the house. They may
stay just five years, but sometimes people stay thirty years.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
YEA.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
So how you get business, how your team gets businesses
through that word of mouth because of the experience people have,
and so you know, y'all make sure that customers come first.
Speaker 6 (28:13):
We do, and I think our Google refews reflect that.
So if there's anyone out there who is thinking about
buying or selling, they.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Need to interview.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
I would interview more than one person, and I would say,
go check out their Google reviews. One of the things
that we all do. Anytime I need to buy something
or search for something, where do I go? I go
to Google and see what everyone thinks about it, because
I want to hear what other people are saying, and
so searching that way is one way to be able
(28:46):
to see how effective is the person that you're looking at.
But then just sitting there and having a conversation, whether
you're going to be working with them as a buyer
or as a seller, you really should interview them and
say what does it look like. Our buyers come in
for a buyer consultation, we have a book that shows
them what the process looks like. We walk them through
(29:07):
step by step. Sellers the same thing. We've produced our
own book that says here's what the process looks like.
So for us, it's critical to give the client the
information they need to know what that's going to look like.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Well, and for somebody out there right now that is
thinking they may want to buy or sell, and sometimes
it could be they're not sure, you know, whether they
want to do it next month or wait a year.
That's something you and your team can help people with.
And you're happy to help people with. Correct.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
Oh, absolutely, and so you don't have to be ready today,
excuse me. It's about educating the person on what does
that transaction look like, starting maybe today, but then continuing
to say, okay, first step if you're a buyers to
(29:59):
get approved and so just like you're on our list
of who we recommend because your team provides excellent service
to our clients as well. So the first step may
be that they call your office and start that process.
And then they may not be ready immediately, and so
it may be that you guys have to walk them
(30:21):
through a few things before they get to the point
that they can be ready. And so we're going to
prepare them. Okay, once this is ready, these are the
next steps. So some people say, well, I'm not ready
for a year, and I'm like, that's okay, let us
walk you through. Of course, this happens when we get
on video.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Well, it's not a problem. But I do think what
you're saying is so correct because it's one of your
bigger life decisions. So having as much information to be
able to think about it really can make you have
less sleepless nights with anxiety overdoing something that is, you know,
life changing because where we spend our uh you know
(31:03):
where we live, we spend a lot of time there.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
Absolutely, and the same thing on the selling process. You know,
some people are like, well, I'm not going to be
ready to sell to the next year, but there may
be some decisions you make today, tomorrow, in the next
month that help you get ready for that next year.
So we are never in a hurry. We're always about
giving you the best information you need to help you
(31:29):
make a wise decision.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
How people get in touch with you. We're about out
of time here.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
Danasimmons real Estate dot Com or four O nine eight
six sixteen.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Danus Simmons Dana Simmons real Estate where they've been doing
real estate thirty years, making a difference right here in
all of Southeast Texas. Thank you so much for being
on the show today.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Thank you Roy.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Talk to you, Sin Okay. Good names Southeast Texas. You're
listening into the Roy West Show and we are back
and we've got another great guest. We've got Lady with
Jani's Love and it is a foundation to help those
with sickle cell anina. Welcome to the show. Thank you,
(32:18):
absolutely so. Tell people a little bit about the origin
of Jania's Love and what it is y'all are doing,
and you've got an upcoming event.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Yes, sir, we do, okay.
Speaker 8 (32:31):
Jana's Love was founded following the death of my granddaughter
Jania La Da, who suffered from SIKA cel disease.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
She was.
Speaker 8 (32:42):
She passed away on May seventh of twenty fifteen at
the age of seven, after which I started the foundation,
Jania's Love. It's a five oh one C three nonprofit
organization to fight for sickle cel disease. We have been
in operation for at least ten years and we plan
(33:04):
on continuing throughout the lifetime. Jenaia's debt could have been
prevented with proper care and more awareness.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
To the CIC of cel disease.
Speaker 8 (33:16):
We have an upcoming walk to build to build sponsors,
to build funds and awareness for a CIC of sale
disease on September thirteenth, twenty twenty five, beginning at seven
thirty is the lineup. The walk will start from eight
to ten and then we'll host a small event and
(33:39):
where you can hear from loved ones with cick of
Sale disease as well as Vertex, which is a pharmaceutical
and other sponsors that will be speaking.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Well.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
And so I understand what motivated Jen, certainly the tragic
death of your granddaughter. And tell me about the process
over the last ten years, because it certainly has grown
over that time. And in that process that you went through,
the things that you've been able to do. And uh,
(34:17):
and I know awareness and fundraising, but also in terms
of where you hope to focus that the money that
you raise.
Speaker 8 (34:25):
Okay, I have started out. I started out funding my
own foundation. I work for a social security administration for
twenty five years.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
I retired.
Speaker 8 (34:37):
Once I retired, it became a little harder to fund
the foundation. So at that time. So now which is
why we're out here asking for donations and sponsors, because
we are in the process of trying to form a
wellness center which will serve the public and serve the
sicker sell community in ways where we can avoid hospital
(35:02):
visits and avoid a lot of them getting sick because
we all inform them on nutrition and better ways to
take care of themselves. We can give them information on
new studies and advancements that.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Have been occurred.
Speaker 8 (35:16):
I am a member of the sica Cel Consortium and Atlanta,
Georgia partner, and I've gone to several conferences in Atlanta
and Orlando, Florida to learn more about caregivers and cica
cel and all the different technologies and stuff that is
out now to help sic of sell individuals. So my
(35:39):
goal is to reach as many people as I can
to give them this information in order to better get
a better quality of life and live longer and healthier.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Well, and you know, reading a little bit about sickle cell,
it is it's something somebody can prevent. It's something people
are born with, right and and it's not something that
you're gonna ever just that doesn't seem to go away
but you But so the idea is to manage it
(36:11):
as effectively as possible to prevent uh uh, whether it's
pain and infections or untimely DIDs, right, absolutely and uh
and and clearly I think education is probably a big
part of that as well as uh services being available
(36:34):
to the public. So uh so is that something you've have?
You seen models in other cities that have worked well
at that.
Speaker 8 (36:44):
Yes, I work along with other CICA CEL partners and
there is many services available. The problem is people have
lack of knowledge of sika cel disease and they look
at it as the common coal. It is very serious,
very critical. There are people dropping dead that over exert
(37:06):
their body and.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
They have just the trait of sick of cell.
Speaker 8 (37:10):
So what we're trying to do is prevent them from
having untimely that make them more aware of the disease
they have, make the parents more aware, the individuals.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
It needs to be in schools.
Speaker 8 (37:25):
And everywhere so that everyone can be aware of what's
going on with their life, their body, if they have
sick of cell, how to take care of it, how
to hydrate, how to better prepare for a lone life?
Speaker 1 (37:38):
And are there local doctors that specialize in treating this.
Speaker 8 (37:44):
The doctors that specializes in treating sick of CEL are
mostly hematologists in Beaumont. There is adult hematologists that is known. However,
for children, I think most of them go to Texas
Children or to Saint Jude Hospital and they have to
travel four ways to get treatments.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
So we're trying to.
Speaker 8 (38:09):
Help them get better, uh, you know transportation, be able
to reach the doctors, you know, and just give them
a better quality of life.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Well, and let's talk about how people can sign up
for this and how they can sponsor, how they can
reach out, uh, reach out directly to you or what
what source do they use?
Speaker 8 (38:34):
Okay, we have a website is Jenia's love dot org.
You can sign up online, you can donate. Our office
is located at seven hundred Narch Street, which is the
foundation for Saudeast Texas. You can sign up there as well.
You can call four on nine five, two, seven, twenty three,
(38:56):
twenty three and sign up. There are multiple ways to
sign up. We're not turning anyone around. You can sign
up early morning on the day of the walk.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
That is at the event center in downtown where the
lake is at Crockett Street.
Speaker 8 (39:15):
Correct, Yes, right next to the riverside grill where the
horseshoe is. We'll be in that parking lot and that's
where the event will be held and that's where everything
will begin.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Well, I know that This has been a passion for
you and you've made great strides and you are looking
to expand the foundation so that others can you can
reach more people and educate more people as well as
provide additional services. So I want to thank you for that.
And folks, they have a Facebook page as well besides
(39:51):
the website, so be sure to check them out. And
we are out of time, but thank you so much
for being on today.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Thank you. I appreciate your time. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Yes, ma'am. Okay, we are back with the Roy West
Show here on News Talk five sixty kl the In
the first segment, we were talking to Sarah Wells with
the Junior League of Beaumont and folks, the Junior League
does so much good here in Southeast Texas and I
just want to acknowledge them. And you know, if you're
(40:25):
female and you're interested in getting involved in the community,
they're a great way to do that. Then I was
talking to Uliana Trilowski with the Boma Rotary Club and
they have weekly chapter meetings at the Elegante Lunch and
a program as well as giving back to the community
(40:46):
and lots of different programs. So when you see the
flags on national holidays. They with the Boy Scouts do
that as well. Then I was talking with Dana Simmons
of Dana Simmons real Estate, who has been in the
real estate business a long time and many people have
seen her signs. She talked about the local real estate
market and what is happening here in Beaumont. And then
(41:11):
I talked to Letty Bucksy with for walk for Sickle
Cell that is coming up upcoming. She is created a
not for profit to inform people about sickle cell anemia
and also provide them additional resources. Folks, you can listen
to the Roy West Show every Sunday from noon to
(41:34):
one right here on News Talk five sixty klv R.
You can download the free iHeart Radio app and catch
the show live, or you can check out any of
our show their podcast through iHeart Radio, also Apple podcasts
and Android podcasts. And Folks, when things are happening in
(41:55):
Southeast Texas and be sure to listen in because I
like to interview all those organists that are making Southeast
Texas a better place to live. And until we talk again,
God bless you off
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