Lemon Aide Society-Empowering Young Women

Lemon Aide Society, founder Debbie Weinstein discusses the history and mission to Inspire the next generation of female leaders to make a sustainable difference in their community through mentorship, empowerment, service and leadership.

Episode Transcript

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and a voice to nonprofit organizations andindividuals making a difference in our community.
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I'm very pleased to introduced Jebbie Weinstein. She is the founder and the director
of the Lemonade Society. Welcome,Glad you can rejoin us. I'm so
excited to be here. This isgonna be nice. I got a quote
here from your saying it says ourLemonades are learning who they are, what
they are capable of, and howto make their own mark on the world

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around them. That is one ofyour quotes. Is that's where it sums
up what you're about. Tell usa little bit about the Lemonade Society and
how you got involved. Okay,I do think that quote sums up pretty
much what we're involved, what wedo. But let me tell you how
we get started, and I we'llsee through. We get started because I
head coach gymnastics, run a competitiveteam program for thirty years and I was

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no longer doing that, and Ireally racked my brain and thought about what
could I do to give to thekids that I was giving before, but
I was no longer going to doit through gymnastics, and I wanted to
be able to give things to thekids in my community like I had done
through gymnastics. It was never aboutthe gymnastics. It was about what could
I give them that was going tomake them into the best version of themselves.

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So I was, I think,pretty good about finding those things that
those girls needed to give them confidenceand to just send them walk out of
the gym. I'm much more confident, more better self esteem, better knowledge
of how to work for something.They wanted to really envision what their goals

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were and go for them, butto do it in a way that was
it was nurturing, it was empowered, worrying. I think empowerment is the
biggest I know it's a buzzword thesedays, but I think it's really important.
So I thought, well, whatcould I do to do this?
And I had a friend at mytwenty fifth three union from college and who
was telling me about this program shedid in Baltimore. But it was doing

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a service project every month for thecommunity that made it easy for them to
participate. And I had thought thatwas a great thing for Dallas. But
my skill set and experiences with girls, and I was thinking what could I
do to give those same skills?And I thought, how about if I
do a group where the girls doa service project every month and they're learning

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how to be leaders through through planningthese service projects, and it just evolved
from there. So we got started. I had a meeting with a woman
who I had worked with for avery long time. We worked together at
the competitive gymnastics program, and sheand I met for lunch and I told

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her about my idea and she's like, yes, I'm on board, let's
do it. So we thought wewould open in the fall. Well,
two weeks later, the country shutdown, the world shut down, and
I sat and I on the internetand I was watching people say, well,
what can I do? What canI do to help in the community?
What can I do while we're onthis lockdown? You know, everybody
wanted to do something. So Icalled her up and I said, Hey,

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Julie, how about have we runan online camp? Because I'd run
camp for thirty years, I waswell versed in camp. I just instead
of being in a gymnastics gym,let's do it online. And that way,
maybe all those kids whose camp werecanceled for the summer, maybe at
least we'll give them something to dofor a few hours a day. So

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she and I and we brought alonganother girl named Rachel Barkowitz, who has
been with me since she was sixyears old, and we created a camp
that was going to run for threeweeks. It was going to be I
think, did we do it?We did it. I can't even remember
how long we did it, maybeten to two with a break for lunch,

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but they could have lunch online tooif they wanted, or they could
log off for a little bit andcome back. And we did it just
like you would do a camp.We ran electives. You could pick this
or this or you know, therewere three of us, so you could
pick one of three electives. Wedid fashion shows, We did crips,
which was some show where you couldshow your surroundings. We did games,

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We did I mean we did wedid art projects. Every week. Their
parents would come pick up supply bagsfrom my house and it would have the
supplies for the week and you signedup by the week. Well, we
ended up running this three week campfor nine weeks because they begged for it.
We had kids in Miami, wehad kids in Arizona, we had
counselors in New York and Denver.We I mean, it was amazing what

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we did and what we were ableto pull off in nine weeks. So
as we were getting close to theend, said to Julie, Hey,
Julie's super easy to start this.Now we've got a whole group of kids
that we've started with and there usedto being online. Let's open it up
and see what happens. So wewent ahead and launched it basically with the
people in camp, posted it ona Facebook group, and we started out

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the first year with thirty six kidsin Dallas I think, and six kids
in Miami. And we ran itfor the whole first year online and that
was the start of us. Andthen the second year we were in person
and realize we needed to make changesbecause it was different than mean online.
And this was our third year andthat's how we got to where we are

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today. And so leading back tothe quote, I think that first of
all, I think if you givea girl confidence in who they are and
what they are, and you givethem the space to be in charge and
use their own voice safely, Ithink you're just giving them so much that
they're going to use in their life. And I think that's what I have

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seen through this and that is whatI did in gymnastics. As I gave
I believe you have to give kidsspace to speak their own voice and not
overspeak them, and give them achance to have belief in what they are
doing and what they want to door their vision, and give them the
space to do it. Because whatcomes out at the end is this most

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phenomenal kid that you wouldn't believe.How old are the girls that they're in
your program. So we started withthird through sixth grade because that was pretty
much the grade we'd had at camp, and also we thought it was good
to just start right in the middlewith a little bit older. We now
go from second grade till twelfth grade, and it's a tiered it's a tiered

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experience. Like the second and thirdgraders, every year is a little bit
more than what you did the yearbefore. The second graders is really a
focus on speaking in front of people, creating a presentation because they have to
teach about the project they're going tobe doing, and it's learning how to
make decisions how many If we're makinganimal if the service project is to make

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something for Operation Kindness, so tospeak, I might say do you want
to make a dog toy or cattoy as your project? And they'll you
know, so they have to choose, and they have to think about what
other people want. So they're havingto think outside themselves too. How many
do you think your group can make? How many do you think you could
make it in an hour working onthis project? And so they're learning how
to start thinking critically about what they'redoing. When you get to fourth and

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fifth grade, you are planning thewhole project and actually leading the project.
And so now you have to youknow, you've had a couple of years
of speaking in front of your group. Now you have to start thinking about,
you know, leading and actually teachingsomebody how to do something in front
of them, and what is realisticto get done and what happens if things

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don't work out the way you thinkthey're going to. What do you do?
You know? And then when theyhit sixth grade, they start really
coming up with the projects on theirown. So this was the first year
we did that, and I wouldhave to say it was phenomenal what these
kids did. I mean some ofthese kids. I had one girl who's
been with me from the beginning,and she was in eighth grade this year,

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and she was supposed to be doinga project at Family Gateway and a
week before we were supposed to doit. Kathy called us up and said,
I am so sorry, but wehave people living everywhere and we can't
we don't have space to do thisproject. So Jordan and I got on
the phone, I mean got onZoom because we do everything on Zoom except
our monthly meetings and Jordan's you know. We went and researched all the kind

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of places where could we put togetherproject in a week, and we laid
it on Buckner International because we couldjust go there and help them do their
shoes. And here I've thinking we'redone, and Jordan says, oh no,
Debbie, I think we should collectshoes to take with us. We
only have a week. Jordan justlike my no, but I think we
can do it, okay, becausethat's what we're there for, is to

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say okay and help them make theirvision come true. And then she said,
I think we can collect a thousanddollars week. Oh yeah, I
think it'll happen. I'm like,okay, but you're okay if we don't
write, and she's like yeah,I'm like okay. I think it's gonna
be tough, Jordan, but let'sgo and PS. We collected twelve hundred
dollars. And before we went tobuck Nurse, she and I met at

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Walmart and we went and bought outtheir shoe department, and she learned the
value of I can buy thirty dollarssneakers or I can buy three pair of
ten dollars sneakers, you know,to send to these kids all over the
world. And we walked in withtwo or three humongous bags of shoes.
That is great. So, yeah, so your projects all have a very

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practical give back to community or otherorganizations. Yeah, rather your focus and
what these young ladies are learning todo and learning to give back. And
yes that what are some of theother projects that two gaysn't worked on?
Her? So my second graders thisyear made painted clay pots and then made

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flowers out of pipe, you knowpipe anyway, these cute little pots and
things. And then they went toLegacy, which is the Legacy Communities.
It's sponsored by the Jewish Federation ofDallas and a subsidiary agency, and they
went for the assist of Living andgave those to the seniors there, and

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then they got a tour because Ido every time we do a delivery every
agency has been amazing and gives ustours and tells us more about what they're
doing, which is the most impactfulpart of the whole process. My actually
the same agency, my seventh gradersdecided they wanted to do a cake decorating

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and to teach the seniors how todo it, and we had a woman
donate her time to come in andshe taught everybody how to decorate this stuff,
not that anybody listened, and thegirls helped them and we made these
cookies, and then we took anycookies that were not wanted by the seniors
that we're making them, and wewent and handed them out in the assisted
living a men rake care units.So everybody benefited from the project that we

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did, from the seniors who wereengaged, we had seniors in independent living
who came and helped us lead theseniors that came that were mostly assisted living,
and then we took the leftover cookiesand shared them with everybody else.
So it was really an all agencyproject, which is really cool, one
of the most amazing thing we've done, and really a testament to growth that

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I can see in a kid asI had a girl who just graduated high
school, but last years said thatshe wanted to do a project. She
at her school they do they doa service project, and she wanted to
be with Lemonade Society and would Ihelp bart I'm absolutely And by helping she
means I would mentor her. Soshe put together a camp and she did

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everything with my guidance, but thiswas her. She put it together and
she hired staff, hired vaunteer staffalso in Lemonade Society and outside of it.
And we put on a camp lastsummer for Family Gateway for a week
and it was four days. Forit was two hours a day, but
it was a very long two hours. And it was the most phenomenal thing

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I've ever seen because I had Lindsaywas in eleventh grade, and I had
a ninth grader, a tenth grader, and then everybody else was like six
and seventh graders who came to help, and we ran a camp that they
told us was one of the bestthings their kids had done that summer,
So it was phenomenal. We didart projects, we did science experiments,

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we made ice cream in a bag, We played games. I mean there
were so we tried to do serviceprojects with them that you know it was.
It was incredible, but it wasplanned by a kid in eleventh grade,
and we were going to do itagain this summer. One of the
girls going into tenth grade who hadbeen there the summer before, and a
growing eighth grade. We're going tobe the directors this year, but Family

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Gateways in limbo right now because they'removing to plan and so we'll do it
next year. All right, Yeah, let me take a little bit of
a break and we come back.I want to talk about you mentioned your
mentorship programs and some other programs thatyou have, but I want to say
thank you for another one of oursponsors, Bruna Haven, which is this
wonderful spiritual gift shop in downtown Richardson. You go and you'll find free trade

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merchandise from all over the country.You'll find handmade jewelry, artwork, crystals
in sense and on the fourth Saturdayof every month they hold a psychic Fair
and you can go online to brunahndot com check out all things that they
do at the shop, and youcan even make reservations for the psychic Fair

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and find out more about what theyare doing there. So I want to
say thank you to Bruanta Haven andif you see Alex in there, tell
her dad said hello. This isa family business. And speaking of family
business, I know Debbie. Wewere introduced by a good friend of our
families, Reagan FitzGeralds. She's agreat friend of my, my daughters and
of Alex who is in her motherrun the shop. So we've known Reagan

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forever, so we appreciate that.And like I said, it's all family.
So if you see Alex, tellher I said hello. And if
you hear the baby, that wouldbe Sky. She's our newborn, Alex's
daughter, and so she'll be runningthat shop soon. So stop by and
say hello to the family at PraniHaven in downtown Richardson. All right,

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and we do want to thank Reaganfor introducing us. That's the way it
works. We put a message outsaying if you know someone that in nonprofit
or making impact, let us knowabout it. So that's we appreciate that.
I think Reagan is a perfect exampleof what happens when you believe in
a girl and where she can getto. She is a kid who has

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been with me since she was infourth grade. That's when we met,
and she was in line first placeto have her kids in this organization when
we started it, because she willtell you that she knew what that kind
of an environment did for her inher life, and she wanted the same
thing for her kids. So whichis a good lead into Let me tell

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you about how it works. SoLemonade Society has three programs. We have
a monthly program which is for kidsin just the general community. Anybody who
wants to can be in it.And they're in groups by age, by
grade. Sorry, and they arevery small groups because if the groups are
too big then we don't have enoughopportunities for girls to lead. And they

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like to lead twice a year,and those girls every month will meet and
at every meeting they have a serviceproject that has led by one or two
of the girls in the group.They also do leadership in team building because
they are a team and they haveto learn to work together and there's so
much you can learn by some ofthose team building games. And then leadership.
Every year has a different leadership focus. Second graders is all about learning

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about who they are, building uptheir self confidence. Second third grade is
respect, so we you know youhave to go outside yourself and start thinking
about others and we build from there. And then the service projects, which
are the meat of the organization,is every month, one or two girls

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in each group are the project leaders, and they have mentoring sessions which are
one on one sessions on zoom orin person if it's after the meeting,
where with their mentors in the group. And every group has an adult mentor,
and then some groups have a teammentor, and I'll go to those
in a minute. Well, no, let's hell, you know, so
the team mentors, those are girlswho are in tenth, eleventh, or

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twelfth grade who we are just nextyear going to have our first team mentors
that have grown up through us,and they are going to be amazing because
they've grown up through us. Butanybody in the community can apply, and
if I feel that they are readywhen they are seniors, I will allow
them to apply to be an adultmentor. And I don't have room for

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everybody. I mean, as wegrow and have more team mentors, it
might be more competitive, but rightnow it's basically I've offered it to the
girls I feel that are ready.And this past year, I mean,
one of my most amazing, phenomenaladult mentors with somebody who had been a
team mentor the year before. Sothat's how you can grow through our program
from second grade through twelfth grade.So at these the second graders, obviously

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with their service projects, are alittle bit less involved and more driven from
the adult mentor in the group andour lesson plans. But as I said,
once they get older, they're basicallycreating everything themselves with our guidance.
And the goal is that the mentorsare not doing this program. They're helping

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the girls, mentoring the girls asthey make decisions about what's going to happen
in the group, what we're goingto do, how we're going to do
it, what do we want todo. Every year we've made science projects
for Family Gateway. They love them, these little kits. And one year
one of my girls said to me, well, I don't like any of
the ideas on the project leader worksheet. Can I go find something else?

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I'm like sure, So we goup, we pull up Pinterest, we
pull up Google, and we spentprobably forty five minutes. Still she found
the project. She felt that thekids at Family gate we would really enjoy
different from what we had listed,And that's what we're about. If you
have an idea, Let's go forit. Let's figure it out. You
know what, you think you canraise a thousand dollars in a week,
Let's go for it. And that'swhere that empowerment comes from. We aren't

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doing it for these girls, andthey're doing it for themselves. They're figuring
out how to make happen what theywant to happen. And so that's the
monthly program and it's it's great,and it's really I I can't speak enough
about what I've seen the growth andthe girls that have been with me from
the beginning. Even in a year, you can tell a difference. It's

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just incredible. And I had onegirl actually yesterday, her mom sent me
a video she won the leadership awardout of her dance company of like a
hundred girls. And her mom's like, thank you because she knew, because
this kid's got a lot to offerand she is being given the tools to
take what's in her head and makeit happen in real life. You mentioned
leadership, which is obviously very important, and the fact that your girls mentor

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other girls, and yes, it'sa great path as they grow. Apparently
you mentioned camps physically where does allthis take place? Okay, still work,
so our weekly, our monthly programtakes place in people's homes or if
we're on site like we you know, when we went to Buckner, we
were on site. When we've beenat Legacy, we've been on site.

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We've gone to Empowering the Masses anda group of sixth graders and I on
a very cold thank the weekend beforeThanksgiving and went and help them serve.
They served I think for three threeor four hours. They were they had
lines of cars coming through and wewere helping them with that. We'll go
anywhere. I had a group thatworked at a pet kennel a couple of

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weeks ago and cleaned windows and cleanedyou know, cleaned everything up for them
and helped clean cages or whatever.You know. Well, the girls will
do anything. They come up withideas or they take ideas that you know,
we've put in place. It dependson their age. And they've We've
had groups that went with Green SpacedAlice and got to canoe on the Trinity

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Riverways to help clean the shoreline.That was a real fun one. That
necessary. Yeah project, Yeah exactlyexactly. I mean, it's amazing what
you can learn. And so thesekids are learning every time they go and
do something. They're seeing what ourcity needs, They're seeing why they need
to make a difference. They're seeing, Oh, they're seeing so many things.
I mean, when we did thatcamp at Family Gateway, working with

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the homeless kids was so interesting forme, but for these kids what they
observed. I mean, I hadsixth graders who sat and worked with sixth
graders and could see that they werekids just like them, but they could
also see where those kids were differentfrom them, and it was really eye
opening for all of us. Youknow, So you just don't know.
But that's the monthly program. Thecamp that we run, we run two

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weeks a camp in the summer threeif we do something a Family Gateway,
and we do that at Levine Academy, who so graciously gives us the space,
and it is we do a serviceproject every day and the camp basically
I have run it, but Ihave now I'm going to have one of
my girls going into tenth grade.She is running my next session of it.
She is coming up with the schedule, she's determining the projects. And

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once girls are going into seventh grade, they're allowed to see I T.
So last our first session that wehad this summer, I had four c
t s and my girl going intotenth grade, and the girl going into
tenth grade, she was the director. I mean, I'll let her run
as much as she could, andthen the four girls ran everything. I
just sat back and did what Ihad to do and filled in where they

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needed me to, because I thinksix and seventh grade and eighth grade girls
are the most committed girls you'll everfind because they're so excited to have the
opportunity to be in that position whennobody else gives them that opportunity, that
they rise to the occasion and they'rephenomenal. Like I had one girl last
year who was a C I Twho you wouldn't I mean, she was

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pretty quiet and pretty shy. AndI tell these girls, you have to
come prepared with four or five gamesthat if there is a lull or somebody
who just want to do an activity, that you step right in and you
start playing a game and keeping thesekids engaged, because that's that's our goal.
And all of a suddenly these kidscame in. They didn't want to
be outside. They were hot andsweaty, and they're sitting down and I
went to go turn around to findsomebody to do something with them, and

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this girl, who I was soshocked, walked right in and it had
already started. Like wow, yougo, I mean, that's exactly what
I want is I want that.I want them to learn how to not
be scared. If you've got somethingin your head, don't let your brain
hold you back, go for it. And and that's what I see.
And I think the kids that Ithink the ci T program is the whole,

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the best part of the camp.But you know, on my side,
you know, and we'll come backto this couple more times. Tell
us how people can get in touchwith you, how that can help,
how that can donate. I knowthat, Okay, all of our nonprofit
organizations that we visit with on thisshow have to have funding, yes,
you know, and so tell ushow we can help. Okay, Well,
the biggest thing I need is somebodyto help me run this organization because

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it is bigger than just one person. So the more funds I raise,
the more I can afford to paysomebody to come in and help. Our
fundraising link is on our website rightup at the top. That. We
also run a campaign on North TexasGiving Day, so that we aren't asking
people for money all year long.We do it one time a year and
every penny that comes in we'll gotowards programming, or we'll go towards staff.

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We do charge the monthly Girls Ifeed to be in it. We
haven't discussed the school program yet,but that is that is a no charge
for the kids, So any moneythat comes in helps fund that program also,
which is really an amazing, amazingprogram and um and really that's that's
it. We don't do a lotof fundraising other than that. I mean,

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we're hope quietly building up a donorbase and in mean, we've only
been in existence for three years,but every little bit helps. Right now,
we are an all volunteer run organization, with the exception of a couple
of people that do I have anadmin who does get paid and somebody helps
with the schools and other than that, it's all volunteer. And their website

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a in website is www dot LemonadeSociety dot org and that's l E M
O n AI d E. Okay, how'd you go up the name?
I kind of like, Okay,so when Julie and I were sitting discussing
having this camp online, and wethought we got to give it a name,
and we just, you know,sat thought and I am this crazy,

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out of the box thinker and Ilove plays on words and everything.
And I was doing my laundry oneday and I called her up. I'm
like, lemonade, can't I can'tlemonade or like, because when you have
a summer of lemons, you makelemonade, right, And so then it
just flowed from there. What arewe going to call this organization? And
we thought we'd call it Girls LeadAnd after I looked it up, I
realized there's tons of girls Leads,and I thought, well, why can't

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I just call it Lemonade Society?And that's how we became Lemonade. Yeah.
I like that. I like that. Tell me what we've messed.
We've had some notes here, we'vetalked about some things, and we visited
earlier. Tell me what we've massedor what you want people to know that
we haven't talked. I think weshould talk about the school program, okay,
because school program is honestly, Ithink it is the hidden gem of

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what we have created. The schoolprogram is an after school program in schools
and disadvantage areas Title one schools wherethe girls meet once a week and they
have the same mission as the weeklyis the monthly program, but it's done
in a way that appeals to themand works with them within the context of

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where they are, so they theirday depending. We did two schools this
year and one school that the girlshad now in half and the other school
they had forty five minutes, sowe had to vary it. But the
intention would be to have an afternoonsnack that is healthy, that they learn
different ways to make healthy food andwhy nutrition is important, and then they

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would do a leadership. Sometimes thatleadership is how to have self confidence or
you know, different things you wouldthink of as a leadership, and sometimes
it's self care. How do youshould be bathing every day? When you're
old enough, you should be wearinga deodorant. And we provide them with
a little kit with all these thingsthat we talk about in it so that
they can use them. We youknow, so there's lots of different things
that can encompass. Sometimes it's howto do a slide show, how to

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put together a slide on Google docso that you can make them presentation and
then they do service projects in thefall, they do service projects on their
campus where maybe it's reading to kidsin aftercare or which you know, think
about it. A lot of thesekids, some of them don't have all
the same skills because they've moved arounda lot or what have you, and
now they're reading to kindergarteners, butthey're the better reader, and so that's

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builds them up a little bit,whereas sometimes they don't always feel so confident
in that area. Sometimes they makesome kind of a treat for the staff
to thank them for everything they do. At our school, last year they
started doing I don't remember what theycalled it, but it was basically teachers
could could request girls to come inand help them after school and they would

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spend forty five minutes out of theirafter school time meeting time, going in
and helping teachers, whether it wassorting folders or cleaning up the room or
whatever. And they loved that becausenow they're getting to know their teachers on
a different level than they did before. Anyway, So it's it's there's lots
of different things. In the spring, we divide them up into groups and

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they have to come up with theservice project and it as so first they
can't find the agency they want tohelp, and then they figure out what
the service project is going to be. Then they have to present it to
the group and they do the serviceproject that week. So every week they
would have a presentation and a serviceproject. So they were also getting to
do similar things to the monthly girls, but more on a way that works

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for them. And after the firstyear, I mean, were some of
the comments we got back with youknow, she's more engaged in class now,
she is more empathetic to her fellowstudents. She has really gained in
confidence over the course of the year. And I can tell you I saw
it. I went at the beginningof the year and these girls talk to
me and they look at me likethis and you know, kind of talking

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this little quiet voice. And bythe end of the year, they're like,
hey, miss Dabby, how areyou? You know, And they're
running up and they're giving me hugs, and they're telling me about their projects
and I'm watching them present and they'redoing it with confidence. I mean,
they're not perfectly confident, every singleone of them, but the change that
you see is just phenomenal. AndI luckily had a couple of the girls

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that got to see two years ina row, because it's very one of
the schools is very transient, andjust to see them, you know,
you could see they had more confidence, they'd been in it longer, and
it was just it was just beautiful. And I think that school program is
definitely something There's not a lot ofprograms out there that I have seen that
really start empowering girls in elementary school. They wait until they're in high school,

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and then I think it's too late. I think you've got to start
when they're young and they're pliable andthey still want to please you and and
they're sponges. I think that's great, And I know that your reward is
going to be seeing these girls asyoung adults giving back to society in roles
of leadership and helping others through life. And now that's coming for this it's

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a great, great organization and wecertainly appreciate you being here with us today.
Tell us one more time. Let'snot forget how to get in touch
with you, how you can donate, volunteer, are out Okay, everything
is on our website www. DotLemonade Society dot org. Remember it's l
M O n aide and you cancontact me through the contact You can donate

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through the form on the page,you can sign your child up, you
can apply your child. I shouldsay that because we have limited space every
year, because we are dependent onadult mentors. If you are so willing,
adult mentors is the hardest thing tofind and the most important part of
our organization. If you are willing, or you know somebody who would be

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a great adult mentor, please pleaseplease reach out, because that is by
far the most important part of thisbecause that adult mentors are the people that
are working one on one with thesegirls and empowering them, and so we
need great adult mentors. If youhave a daughter who's in tenth, eleventh,
or twelfth grade, she can applyto be a team mentor on the

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form. And by the way,the application for Lemonades, which are the
second three right now tenth graders,is partially an adult driven application, but
the girls have to also fill outpart of the application on their own,
because we are all about empowering girlsand we want them to be responsible for
themselves. All right, Thank youso much for being with us and I

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see you. I'm sure we'll seesome of your your eliminating I hope solves
here on the show in the future, I hope. So thank you