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🕕 [00:06:00] – Aligning mission with consistent excellence
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🕘 [00:09:00] – Reflecting on the biggest leadership lesson
🕙 [00:10:00] – How purpose beats passion every time
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- True leadership isn’t about control—it’s about trust. Charles built a thriving movement by empowering the right people, not micromanaging them. 🤝
- He runs a nonprofit like a business—and it works. By applying business principles to social impact, Charles scaled Place of Hope into Florida’s gold standard for faith-based care. 📊
- Legacy is built through intentional action. Charles plants seeds he’ll never sit in the shade of, focusing on generational impact—not just immediate wins. 🌳
- He shows what it means to serve with fire. Servant leadership, in Charles’ world, isn’t passive—it’s purpose-driven, courageous, and deeply committed to others. 🔥
- He’s built a culture that outlives charisma. Place of Hope doesn’t depend on one personality—it thrives because of a unified team bought into the mission. 🧱
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🕕 [00:06:00] – Aligning mission with consistent excellence
🕖 [00:07:00] – Why people recommend Place of Hope
🕗 [00:08:00] – The power of surrounding kids with belief
🕘 [00:09:00] – Reflecting on the biggest leadership lesson
🕙 [00:10:00] – How purpose beats passion every time
You Can Contact Place of Hope Here:
Phone: (561) 775-7195
Email: charlesb@placeofhope.com
🌐 Website
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Are you ready to level up?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Do you wish to live a life of options and
not obligations? You've gone to the right place. Thank you
for stopping on by to hear knowledge nuggets from Coach
Fergie and his top tier guest to help you lean
into your ultimate human potential. Now let's level up with
Coach Fergie.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Hey Varsity Squad, Welcome back to another powerful edition of
level Up Conversations with Coach Fergie with time to Shine
today Coaching. I'm your host, Scott Ferguson, blessed to be
your gap coach specialized in performance mental conditioning, working in
business leaders, entrepreneurs, entertainers, athletes, c suite and students to
help them bridge their success gap to live a life
of options and not obligations. On this platform, we are
soaked to bring you high performers or are not just
(00:41):
chasing an attaining success but redefining it th you're providing
above and beyond service. And this really quick knowledge nugget
really kind of rolls into who my guest is, which
I'll introduce here in a second. But servant leadership. It
isn't soft, it's kind of savage in a way, you know,
real servant. Leadership isn't about being liked. It's about being
locked in up with purpose, putting your people first, and
(01:01):
demanding excellence because you care that much. Like good friends
of mine, like Ed my Lett says Max Out. Nick Saban,
legendary coach, says build dynasties. Brian Kain install systems. Trevor
mo Ed stays neutral in the chaos. Jesus washed this
people's feet before he even wore a crown in myself.
I do what I love in the service of people
that love what I do. The common thread. We serve
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their people, team clients by raising standards, not lowering the bar.
Remember what I have said about goals. Goals are nothing
more than a byproduct of your standards. So your standards
are good, you'll reach your goals. So serve hard, love strong,
demand better. And that's how legacies are built. And talk
about legacies. My buddy here, Charles Bender, the third CB three,
(01:44):
is the founding CEO and board member A Place of
Hope when a Florida's most impactful faith based nonprofits serving
abuse and neglected children for over twenty five years. Charles's
a relentless force for good, building a movement that's more
than just a shelter, It's a lifeline. A single campus
to a powerful network of healing places of Place of
Hope now spans Palm Beach Gardens, Boca Ratone, Hope, Sound,
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Stuart and West Palm Beach offering family style foster care, outreach, prevention,
housing and restoration services. Under Charles leadership, this organization has
become Florida's gold standard for trauma informed care and blueprint
for how communities can step up for the most vulnerable.
What does it really take to build a legacy of
impact that changes lives for generations?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
You're about to find out. So CEB three Charles, thanks
for coming.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Out, brother coach, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
And also thank you to Kirsten Miller, a good friend
and also a client of mine on the real estate
side of my world. I'm blessed to have her in
a studio. But let's kind of get to the roots
of stuff. I mean round here. You're really well known
with stuff that we want to put even more shine
on you. So those are the roots kind of a
Place of Hope.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Thank you. That's what helps Place so continue to grow.
So appreciate being here today and appreciate you appreciate your
energy too, but bring it. I love it, I need it.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
You know.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
We were started way back in ninety four or as
a result of a trip that pastor Tom and donal
Mullens took to Romania and basically they saw war torn
Romania from Christs and saw really horrific things and traumatic
events and kids' lives over there. Came back to the
States and of course this is a summary. He came
back to the States and really felt called by God
to do something here in this arena because it was
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very similar in a lot of ways, and kids were
falling through the cracks, some really bad stories, and kids
that should have been protected by the state weren't. And
then all of a sudden we were you know, they
got the roadmap as to what to do and launched
this mission, and some of us stepped up, got involved,
and and then we formed a nonprofit and we've always
operated separately from the church, but you know, as a
(03:40):
as a partner in a lot of ways, and this
community has just come around us in a big way
and we've just done nothing but grow for the last
twenty five years.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
It's amazing.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Of course, century you guys, where you guys have taken
it from too, and great teammates with the Moons as well.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Oh yeah, you're the best, the best.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I love hearing him in the sun, you know, on
Sundays and here and so. Over that past twenty five years,
you know, it's expanded to multiple campuses and programs, from
foster care cottages to trafficking intervention and maternity homes. What's
the thread that ties all of these expansions together.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
I mean, all good things come from God, the father
of heavenly lights above right, everything comes from his hand.
And I think when you do things, when you're called
to do something and you try your best to do
it right, and you surround yourself as you know, with
great people. People are attracted to gold standard stuff. So
you know, I remember early on when we launched and
there was you know, there were a lot of hurdles.
There were folks honestly who didn't want to see us succeed,
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more institutional type folks running the systems that were out there.
And I know, you know, I watched it change over
the years as we started to have these kids make it.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
And really do well.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
And then these young people make it and go to
college and all these other things. Then all of a sudden,
it was like, Wow, it's okay to like these faith
based folks, it's okay for them to be doing the
state's work. And so it just changed because of the
excellence that we try to put ourselves toward.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I love that because you held the standards so high.
And again I talked a lot about reaching goals as
a byproduct of your standards. So you put that out
there and people started really to kind of buy in
because it, okay, I'm Christian brother as well. Right, So
like sometimes if it's kind of you know, quote unquote
shoved down their throat right.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Part of it.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
So you know, you describe running place of Hope like
a business. Okay, right, Again, that balance of mission driven
faith values with operational vigor required to scale a nonprofit.
Like I heard a little bit of pushback before, but
like kind of tell us the story, maybe a story
of what you overcame with that.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm a social entrepreneur. So I
grew up with my both my parents owned small businesses.
I watched them work, work, work hard, and I just
took that on in my life and I said, whatever
I'm going to do I'm going to work like they work.
And so then when you get this calling in your life,
which of course I didn't know was going to happen,
you know, we just I applied it there and then
I found great people. You know, my leadership team's been
around me over twenty years. My top ladies on the team,
(05:58):
and they're just amazing. And so you know, you look
at what you know they all do, and then you
look at my own family and my wife, you know,
she she just along for this ride in a big
way too, and my kids and everybody's grown up around it.
And so you know it's I just a big believer
if you if you find the right people and you
stick to it and you keep business principles. Yeah, there's
a balance because at the end of the day, we're
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doing ministry, we're doing social work, we're taking care of
the least of these. You have to do all that.
But if you don't do that from a business perspective
as well, then you're going to go out of business.
And we've taken over two failed charities since we've started.
We now run one in Boke and one and Stewart
that went out of business.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
As you kind of absorbed them.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
We did, we we we actually we went through a
system where they literally had to close their doors and
then you know, dedicate their assets to us and then
we reopened.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
That's and that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Then it just keeps the growth going because people believe
in the mission the more than especially about twenty five
years that.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Well, and that's how it happened. Actually in these different communities,
which you know sometimes act as silos philanthropically, right, you know,
we had people down there that said, you know what,
if if this is happening to this orderization, you should
talk to Place Hope up and Stewart's same thing happen,
you should talk to Place Hope. So thankfully doing things
with excellence and having such a great team, then people
referred and said, let them take it over. And that's
what happened.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Can you tell us maybe a little bit of a
story without names, of course, you know that kind of
still maybe haunts or even inspires you believe. I read
like a young man who beat every statistic and came
back to serve there.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Was one multiple stories. Yeah, what keeps you committed day
in and day out there?
Speaker 4 (07:29):
You know, I really it's both it's the success of
you know, the stories of like the young people that
have come in. We know their backgrounds because we get
the case files. We know what they've been through. And
by the way, a lot of that's getting worse. The
things that people do to children. It's just and I
know it's happened since the beginning of time, but it's
it seems like it's just getting worse in a lot
of ways. But tend to see them come into what
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we've built, see God start to move in their lives,
and see the changes that take place. And so when
people say kids are resilient, they really are. They really
can be. They just have to be surrounded by the
right things. They have to find hope, and that just
doesn't happen by itself. And so you know, I could
tell you a million stories about that, but I can
tell you even recent ones. We're getting ready to do
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something really cool with one of our young ladies who
was with us for a long time. Her background was terrible.
I mean, there was trafficking involved and so forth, you know,
and she's moved in with us and she's just doing
great now. And you know what we like to do
is we like to reward them as they move forward
and they attain their goals. And so this community has
come around with scholarship funds, with everything that's needed as
(08:34):
a hand up, not a handout, but to actually make
it the toolbox for success.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
So you started kind of from the ground level and
then you kind of branched up with how did you
build your team out to make sure you started putting
the right people in place? And was it a lot
of maybe say trial and error, like going kind of
through people or like you said, your women have been
your twenty.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Plus years, Yeah, several of them have.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Like what was what was the kind of biggest barrier
other than you know what you talked about the state of.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Yeah, no, I think you know, it's like anything else.
As you're scaling, you you come into different challenges. Now
that we've done this a few times where we've had
these sort of capital expansions into new areas, what's actually
one of the things that keeps us successful is that
we're not going out and replicating all the fixed costs.
There's not a k ME and Boca and a and
an OPS director in Boca, there's not one in Stewart,
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and you know, so we're not repeating, we're running at
all from our headquarters, and so that allows this to
actually be more efficient and more effective. And then what
we've learned over time is that you actually have to
more people on the ground level, you know. And so
you know, we've changed. We've been challenged with a few
things here core infrastructure wise, but I think we're getting
there now where we're finally able to And and I'm
pretty conservative too, so you know, I don't like spending
(09:48):
where I don't need to, obviously, right, and so cause
you know, you don't know what's around the corner, and
just expanding as you need to. And again we've we've
had some stumbling blocks, but now I think we're at
a place where we're ready for the next jump, whatever
that might look like.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Love it. So what do you think it looks like?
Speaker 4 (10:06):
I keep saying like people like, why are you gonna
get another campus? When are you gonna move into Dade
County or Orlando? And I'm like, we don't have a
plan to do that at this point. We have five campuses,
we have some statewide programs, We got a pretty big
budget we got to raise every year, and so what
we're really focused on is expanding ourselves programmatically and being
involved in some really good partnerships around the States, you know,
(10:27):
specifically looking at the anti human trafficking education right efforts
and so forth. Residentially, we are expanding on three of
our existing campuses. We have more available land than probably
any other charity in town really, and so we have
a lot of about twenty construction projects right now regionally,
So we're a lot of expansion addressing the housing need.
(10:47):
But we're not planning on going outside of our footprint
right now. But every time I've said that God's plied
something else on us, and I've been like, oh, I
got to take that back. So never say never.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Would they say, like, how do you make God laugh
on your plans?
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Yeah, that's exactly right. We've seen that happen.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
So your Shade Tree Family Outreach program offers emergency support
to foster families. Right, So what have you learned about
community gaps through that initiative? Like is it really kind
of brought the community together with this program or yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
It's awesome and that's a piece of what we do.
In fact, this week we loaded a fifty three foot
tractor trailer and sent it full of about eighty seven
thousand items to the Texas flood victims from I saw it, yeah,
and so that's a whole other part of what we do.
I don't like anything to go to waste. So when
people give to place of Hoope, it could be clothing,
it could be whatever it is, and we, you know,
we go through it for our own kids, our own
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young people, our families, and then we have partnerships after that,
and honestly, even on down the line, if it doesn't
need to be in the trash and someone can still
benefit from it, we load them up in containers and
send them to places in Haiti and Jamaica as well.
So you know, Shade Tree is a pretty big deal.
But what we were found though, is helping these relative
and non relative caregivers, so nonlice foster families that take
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their family members in, which is a huge number, and
licensed foster families. If we can help these people with
simple things like food and diapers and car seats and
strollers and the things they need to take a young
person in, it makes it possible. So what we're finding
is a generous community of companies and churches and temples
and people who step up that actually want to do
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a drive for us. Sure, we're building warehouses right now,
all four donated goods that go right back out the door.
So we're in a generous community and I love it.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
I love it, And Squad, if you hear a little
bit about what my good friend Charles is talking about,
He's he's grown. He's open to growth, but he's strategically growing.
And he's like I like to say, even with my clients,
so inch by inches of CeNSE right by the yard.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
It's hard.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
He prays on it.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
But the biggest thing is they take action right. Action
is really the most important part.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Of the best board of directors and even people on
our councils that are always it's always a yes if
it makes sense.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
I love it, and Squad, We're going to take a
little bit of a break right now and send you
over to my good friend and sponsor, Steve Austin with
the Dynamic Mortgage Team.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
He's going to tell us a little bit about the
market and we come back.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
We're going to kind of talk a little bit with
Charles about kind of the public policy in Florida and
also get to know Charles a little bit more of
a personal level, So stay tuned and we'll.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Be right back.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
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see unemployment move back up to the four point two percent,
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which was expected, in a huge decline in payroll numbers,
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up to help give the relief and the rates that
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with the tariffs officially going in to affect this month,
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Speaker 3 (15:18):
So much THE market i see is still a little slow,
out there but it's getting a little. Bit better, but
again thank you so much for. The Update, Steve So
charles so when you look at kind of the current
Policy in florida around foster care and, human, trafficking like
what are the biggest both sides successes and failures that
you're seeing in the.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
GOVERNMENT response, I.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Mean i would tell you, you know as, you know
we live in the greatest state in. The nation florida
leads the way in so, many ways and so we
do have a lot of conservative leadership that actually Cares
and i've just witnessed that over. The years now is?
Speaker 1 (15:50):
It?
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Perfect NO is, i mean policy regarding child welfare is just,
it's messy and it comes out of the, federal government
drips down to the states and then they tweak it.
From There but, i'd say, you know we have leadership
in this from the governor to the legislators that that
actually really do try to look at the best interests.
Of children it's always going to be an. Underfunded system
it is always and THAT'S why i personally believe in
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the model they move to An Under jeb bush when
they privatize. The system so the idea, is like, you
know the government doesn't, build roads they contract out to
the best road builders, in, Town, right well they did
that with child well fare, years ago and what it
said to those of us on the nonprofit, side, is
hey we're not going to be the only people with
skin in. The game you gotta a, good program and
you need to raise a dollar for the dollar we.
Give YOU so i actually like that because it puts
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the private sector in the leadership of let's really run
a good, system here and so that's a big part
OF why i think we have a lot. OF successes
i really don't know if it's ever gonna get systemically
better for kids in. This SYSTEM and i think there's
an idea out there that kids should never be in.
The system and that's great if you have an intact family.
(16:52):
That's working but when it, comes, IN yeah i think
they could still make a lot. Of improvements but. It's
hard it's really hard to get great people to step
up to take kids into their. Own home there's there's always,
a need. You know and when you're dealing with the,
TRAFFICKING issues, i mean we're in a. Transient state we're
in a state where a lot of this stuff goes
on third in the nation with the calls and, so
forth and so, you know we're always we've seen trafficking
(17:13):
victims since We started Place, of, hope right but now
we get them with actual codifications in their file that
they know that these they've been run by gangs here,
and there, and it's, you know it's more and more
of that all. The time it's it's a.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Tough, Deal yeah and the people that you're kind of
putting in place have got to HAVE a i gut
kind of a really open mind mentality when it comes
to working with the women that, you know unfortunately are
going through what they're, going through the, foster children also the, human,
trafficking yeah as well. And SQUAD what i Love about
Charles and i'm really kind of getting the know now he's,
(17:44):
Planting trees he's never going to sit in the SHADE of,
i mean this is like it's going to go and
grow and he's going to make sure it's in the.
Right hands and so like talking about that kind of.
The endowment, You, know charles you know You're playing Place
of hope's long, term, Legacy right so so how do
you ensure that impact of the? Future generations like this
generational legacy not just a okay it's hot, right now
(18:08):
but like generation what are you doing to make sure
that it stays intact even after we go meet.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Our, MAKER yeah i mean we're. We're in, you know
we've been in a process of when we formed this
campaign and who's around for it and, you know building,
you know helping us, with it who's helping us build,
the endowment who's responsible for, its investments and how in
the investment policy statements and how well it does for
that part of. The legacy, you know we're really trying
to get place ope to this point where one day
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when we all decide it is time, for retirement we
hand off a very healthy ORGANIZATION that i don't want
to say be easy, to run but from a lot,
of perspectives it's. Well oiled and some of that's financial
and some of that's, you know. Internal policy, you know
we're not an organization that runs around just trying to
find board members to find. Board members like they're very
selective in terms of why are you really wanting to
(18:54):
be on this board, of directors and because we need
you to look at it a, certain way because we
want this thing to live on and by the way,
it works so we can't be told it, doesn't right,
You know and so we were always very careful about
how we expand, our board replaced board members when, they
leave and. So FORTH but i will tell you it's
all of them making, this legacy and everybody wants to see,
(19:16):
it persist, you know the in the, long game so.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Of it and so who do you have as an
advisor that, you respect that you go to because everyone's coming, to,
You right so who is that person in your life
other than probably? Your, wife yeah, you know, but like
who do?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
You, Have Yeah i've actually that's one of THE things
i love about my. Boarder directors i've got folks on
THERE that i can genuinely confide in and. Go to and,
you know one's my, board chairman who's been my board
chairman for, Twenty years Mickey, and sarah very successful, business
guy a very successful husband, and father AND so i
can take Anything, to mickey. You know and the Next
Is tom lane and other board member is exact, same
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thing very successful in all those same. Exact WAYS and
i was on the phone with him. Just yesterday so it's,
you Know and MICKEY and i talk pretty much. Every
day so it's nice when you can bounce ideas and
things and and you got guys like that who uh and,
You Know leanne rinker is, another one a very well
known name, in town very, successful family and is great
for me to crall and bounce things. Off of and
(20:15):
and you know it's not always, a yes that's not.
The point. It's it but they can give insight from
years of of, that serious great experience in business.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
And, others right it's nice to have.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Those giants we can stand on the shoulders of right
and of see a lot of them have been where
The path i'm, blessed from Like Sam, A's RockA, geary
shapiro my my guys, as WELL that i look back
and and. See, that so, you know Leadership within Place
of hope seems to be centered on building trusts and.
Team effectiveness so how do you cultivate that culture when
(20:44):
so many of your organizations? Don't intersect you Know what.
I'm saying it's like you have, you know the child,
you know, foster care but then human trafficking and so.
There's that so how do you like keep the leadership
in place to keep everyone on board moving?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
That, direction yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
IT'S tough i used to actually launch programs and then
go back and tell my team about it other after
the fact that. They forgive they asked me to stop,
doing THAT so i stopped. Doing that, but no THEY
just i think everybody's all IN they, i mean they
trust the. Decision making they KNOW that i am bouncing
things off. Of boarders they know that we. Do pray
we know we've been approached by groups to say would you,
do this would you get into this for us or,
(21:18):
you know for the state, Or whatever and we always
go back, and say, you know we'll pray, about it,
we'll consult and we'll get back. To you so it's
never off. The cuff it's never just a knee. Jerk
reaction you will do this out or, the other, You
know so that that is definitely, a big big part
of it, for US and i think that our team. Just,
knows look it is more difficult because we're also living
in a time right now it's hard to find high
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quality people who really want to go the extra mile
right and understand. The vision, YOU know i joke around
all the time that people coming in that are new they, may,
say well Why does charles take time to care about
their fingerprints on the front door of.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
The, office well let me.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Tell, You why because it's a much deeper conversation about
people's investments and us being responsible for what they gave
and us showing gratitude for. Their GIFT and i don't
care if it was ten years ago that they put
there on. This building that shows that we're caring for
what people have, invested in so keeping that on the
forefront and those kinds. Of THINGS but i will tell you,
real quick people come for, tours whatever they, meet me
(22:14):
and then, they meet, you know somebody else high up in,
the organization and then they meet people all the way down.
The line they will literally come back to me, and
say every SINGLE person i met on the team is
just as jazzed up, and excited and that's some PROFESSIONAL
and i love to hear that because it is a.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Great, Team yeah and that's that's one thing with with
my Employees that i'm blessed to have working, For ME
like i have eight, of them and like they went
out and said things about being on the team that
you KNOW that i never thought that they. Would, say,
yeah right you're just kind of feeling feeling really blessed
about that because, you're thinking because.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
They, see, fergi yeah they don't really want to be
around it.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Too MUCH but i will tell you is it's still,
tough because as, you know when you hold, a standard
not everybody's always in the line for that right because
sometimes it's things sometimes they don't, like what, you know
the interpretation of. That standard and so holding the standard, that's,
leadership period that's part. Of leadership and we're going to
hold that standard because That's what god's called.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Us, to do, Right absolutely so, looking, forward like How
does Place of hope plan to innovate the kind of its,
prevention programming especially like around the kind of, child welfare
kind OF post covid kind of Thing that i'm sure that,
you know there's some politics that were that's kind of going,
out there and also the, you know as human trafficking.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Threats, evolved yeah we're. Doing it we.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Do it just a few, years ago we completely, shifted
gears got out of a certain level of foster care in.
The community we license hundreds. Of beds we literally. Got
out the reason we got out is we saw the
need in another area that we wanted to use, limited
resources and so we've ramped Up That shade tree program that,
you mentioned and then overnight we're serving thousands, a year
thousands and a lot of them are just, local families
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and we just knew we had the ability to go
to our donor base, and say would you also? Do
this would you also do? A drive would you do
a month worth of diapers? In formula, and this that and,
The other and they're all stepping up to, do it
and so we're having a. Huge impact you have to.
STAY nimble i don't care what business. It is social
work is still. A business charity is, a business and
so you have to. Stay NIMBLE and i love the
fact that. We do we've we've shut down programs to,
(24:11):
Start programs we've shut down programs that they just weren't
having the impact that they used. To have, you know
a lot of charities don't. Do that they sit on
their hands and and and and that's why it becomes.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
A failure subsidies accept all that, stuff exactly but action.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
On It right i'm being told right now by several
people that there are a lot of charities right now
hurting because they were so heavily dependent on, government money
and government money money is getting cut all, over, local,
federal state and. You can't you have to have a
balanced approach, and, Everything, right.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
So How does charles want Is dash remember that little
line in between your incarnation date and your, expiration date
your life dating.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
That date hopefully it's way down. The line but How does.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Charles helps on a stashmer, well done good and faithful?
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Servants, love, yeah yeah maybe slide across home blade bumped,
and bruised.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
But the, right way not quite looking.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
The way ANOTHER thing i love is that We're In, palm,
beach right and you are doing things for, the intention not.
The attention and around here is so much about, the,
attention right but you're bringing it on through people like
your pr rep, over here your stin right and and things.
Like THIS but, I love i have to give your
props man like you're doing things for, the intention and
(25:18):
thank you for doing THAT because i have a huge
inventetta against especially human trafficking and being a part of
the foster life, myself personally thank you for what.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
You're, Doing, brother.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Well this certainly is not. Just me it's a team
of people that operate the exact, same way and they're
part of it. As, well yes, you know, thank you
and you're part of it because you're helping get the.
Word out yeah it's not for, the ATTENTION but i
but we do know, that organizationally. Attention matters you do
have to stay in the forefront because you know what's
the next new shiny object, in town right and then
and you know our our donor base days, With us. Thank, goodness,
(25:49):
yes yeah but.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
You're not it's just like you're not leaning, out there
leaning against lambeaus and.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Like doing stuff.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Like that, you know you're actually showing Proof of like
if you go To their, instagram squad which will be
in the, show notes you'll see stories.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Of people that.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Are legit we'll congraduates of your program in. A. Sense right,
so yeah the last couple of, minutes here it's all,
about you the. Stages yours can you tell us how
to find you in any events that you might have a?
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Coming?
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Up, oh yeah we Have our light In the shadows event.
Coming up it's At. Mar lago It is phenomenal's. Year
Three jill Gallagher And jordan brown or our. Co chairs
they are just doing a great job and we're going to.
SELL out, i mean and it's one of the it's
the only event that we do fundraising wise that is
specifically for our efforts in anti human trafficking that might
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be what we're, doing residentially it might be what we're
doing statewide on the, prevention side but it just really
helps us bring. A focus, you know there's so many
people that want to do something as you know about,
the issue, right well, some people, you know they're not
going to all Do What tim tebow's doing and your
friends they go off and find, these kids but, you
know they can be a part of place hope where
we're taking care of them, in house and they can
also learn how to, you know what to be, looking for,
(26:56):
you know talking to their their sisters kids about what
they're looking that online and you're knowing these things and
so it. Funds that it's a big part. Of that
and then we've got this artist and wine festival that's
going on at the Boat over town at the at
the resort, down there which they it's, their event but
they chose. US thankfully i think It's in january for
this event and it's gonna be their national attention and
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we're going to benefit from that financially and in every.
Other way so we got things that go, year round
but those are a couple that are coming Up real
soon's that's.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Fantastic one this we. Wrap up thank you for.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Coming on this is amazing, and blessed and thank You
to kirsten for for introducing me to you. As well
and the number is five six one seven seven five
seven one. Ninety five right, and again squad that's five
six one, seven seven five seven one nine five five
six one seven seven five seven one ninety five or
Go to Place of hope dot Com again Place of hope.
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Dot com thank you a huge shout out to My
Producer brian mudd THE w J and o to My Friend.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Kirston miller thanks you so much for. Coming. On charles
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
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Hey Varsity Squad, Welcome back to another powerful edition of
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today Coaching. I'm your host, Scott Ferguson, blessed to be
your gap coach specialized in performance mental conditioning, working in
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chasing an attaining success but redefining it th you're providing
above and beyond service. And this really quick knowledge nugget
really kind of rolls into who my guest is, which
I'll introduce here in a second. But servant leadership. It
isn't soft, it's kind of savage in a way, you know,
real servant. Leadership isn't about being liked. It's about being
locked in up with purpose, putting your people first, and
(01:01):
demanding excellence because you care that much. Like good friends
of mine, like Ed my Lett says Max Out. Nick Saban,
legendary coach, says build dynasties. Brian Kain install systems. Trevor
mo Ed stays neutral in the chaos. Jesus washed this
people's feet before he even wore a crown in myself.
I do what I love in the service of people
that love what I do. The common thread. We serve
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their people, team clients by raising standards, not lowering the bar.
Remember what I have said about goals. Goals are nothing
more than a byproduct of your standards. So your standards
are good, you'll reach your goals. So serve hard, love strong,
demand better. And that's how legacies are built. And talk
about legacies. My buddy here, Charles Bender, the third CB three,
(01:44):
is the founding CEO and board member A Place of
Hope when a Florida's most impactful faith based nonprofits serving
abuse and neglected children for over twenty five years. Charles's
a relentless force for good, building a movement that's more
than just a shelter, It's a lifeline. A single campus
to a powerful network of healing places of Place of
Hope now spans Palm Beach Gardens, Boca Ratone, Hope, Sound,
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Stuart and West Palm Beach offering family style foster care, outreach, prevention,
housing and restoration services. Under Charles leadership, this organization has
become Florida's gold standard for trauma informed care and blueprint
for how communities can step up for the most vulnerable.
What does it really take to build a legacy of
impact that changes lives for generations?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
You're about to find out. So CEB three Charles, thanks
for coming.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Out, brother coach, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
And also thank you to Kirsten Miller, a good friend
and also a client of mine on the real estate
side of my world. I'm blessed to have her in
a studio. But let's kind of get to the roots
of stuff. I mean round here. You're really well known
with stuff that we want to put even more shine
on you. So those are the roots kind of a
Place of Hope.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Thank you. That's what helps Place so continue to grow.
So appreciate being here today and appreciate you appreciate your
energy too, but bring it. I love it, I need it.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
You know.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
We were started way back in ninety four or as
a result of a trip that pastor Tom and donal
Mullens took to Romania and basically they saw war torn
Romania from Christs and saw really horrific things and traumatic
events and kids' lives over there. Came back to the
States and of course this is a summary. He came
back to the States and really felt called by God
to do something here in this arena because it was
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very similar in a lot of ways, and kids were
falling through the cracks, some really bad stories, and kids
that should have been protected by the state weren't. And
then all of a sudden we were you know, they
got the roadmap as to what to do and launched
this mission, and some of us stepped up, got involved,
and and then we formed a nonprofit and we've always
operated separately from the church, but you know, as a
(03:40):
as a partner in a lot of ways, and this
community has just come around us in a big way
and we've just done nothing but grow for the last
twenty five years.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
It's amazing.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Of course, century you guys, where you guys have taken
it from too, and great teammates with the Moons as well.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Oh yeah, you're the best, the best.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I love hearing him in the sun, you know, on
Sundays and here and so. Over that past twenty five years,
you know, it's expanded to multiple campuses and programs, from
foster care cottages to trafficking intervention and maternity homes. What's
the thread that ties all of these expansions together.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
I mean, all good things come from God, the father
of heavenly lights above right, everything comes from his hand.
And I think when you do things, when you're called
to do something and you try your best to do
it right, and you surround yourself as you know, with
great people. People are attracted to gold standard stuff. So
you know, I remember early on when we launched and
there was you know, there were a lot of hurdles.
There were folks honestly who didn't want to see us succeed,
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more institutional type folks running the systems that were out there.
And I know, you know, I watched it change over
the years as we started to have these kids make it.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
And really do well.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
And then these young people make it and go to
college and all these other things. Then all of a sudden,
it was like, Wow, it's okay to like these faith
based folks, it's okay for them to be doing the
state's work. And so it just changed because of the
excellence that we try to put ourselves toward.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I love that because you held the standards so high.
And again I talked a lot about reaching goals as
a byproduct of your standards. So you put that out
there and people started really to kind of buy in
because it, okay, I'm Christian brother as well. Right, So
like sometimes if it's kind of you know, quote unquote
shoved down their throat right.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Part of it.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
So you know, you describe running place of Hope like
a business. Okay, right, Again, that balance of mission driven
faith values with operational vigor required to scale a nonprofit.
Like I heard a little bit of pushback before, but
like kind of tell us the story, maybe a story
of what you overcame with that.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm a social entrepreneur. So I
grew up with my both my parents owned small businesses.
I watched them work, work, work hard, and I just
took that on in my life and I said, whatever
I'm going to do I'm going to work like they work.
And so then when you get this calling in your life,
which of course I didn't know was going to happen,
you know, we just I applied it there and then
I found great people. You know, my leadership team's been
around me over twenty years. My top ladies on the team,
(05:58):
and they're just amazing. And so you know, you look
at what you know they all do, and then you
look at my own family and my wife, you know,
she she just along for this ride in a big
way too, and my kids and everybody's grown up around it.
And so you know it's I just a big believer
if you if you find the right people and you
stick to it and you keep business principles. Yeah, there's
a balance because at the end of the day, we're
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doing ministry, we're doing social work, we're taking care of
the least of these. You have to do all that.
But if you don't do that from a business perspective
as well, then you're going to go out of business.
And we've taken over two failed charities since we've started.
We now run one in Boke and one and Stewart
that went out of business.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
As you kind of absorbed them.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
We did, we we we actually we went through a
system where they literally had to close their doors and
then you know, dedicate their assets to us and then
we reopened.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
That's and that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Then it just keeps the growth going because people believe
in the mission the more than especially about twenty five
years that.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Well, and that's how it happened. Actually in these different communities,
which you know sometimes act as silos philanthropically, right, you know,
we had people down there that said, you know what,
if if this is happening to this orderization, you should
talk to Place Hope up and Stewart's same thing happen,
you should talk to Place Hope. So thankfully doing things
with excellence and having such a great team, then people
referred and said, let them take it over. And that's
what happened.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Can you tell us maybe a little bit of a
story without names, of course, you know that kind of
still maybe haunts or even inspires you believe. I read
like a young man who beat every statistic and came
back to serve there.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Was one multiple stories. Yeah, what keeps you committed day
in and day out there?
Speaker 4 (07:29):
You know, I really it's both it's the success of
you know, the stories of like the young people that
have come in. We know their backgrounds because we get
the case files. We know what they've been through. And
by the way, a lot of that's getting worse. The
things that people do to children. It's just and I
know it's happened since the beginning of time, but it's
it seems like it's just getting worse in a lot
of ways. But tend to see them come into what
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we've built, see God start to move in their lives,
and see the changes that take place. And so when
people say kids are resilient, they really are. They really
can be. They just have to be surrounded by the
right things. They have to find hope, and that just
doesn't happen by itself. And so you know, I could
tell you a million stories about that, but I can
tell you even recent ones. We're getting ready to do
(08:10):
something really cool with one of our young ladies who
was with us for a long time. Her background was terrible.
I mean, there was trafficking involved and so forth, you know,
and she's moved in with us and she's just doing
great now. And you know what we like to do
is we like to reward them as they move forward
and they attain their goals. And so this community has
come around with scholarship funds, with everything that's needed as
(08:34):
a hand up, not a handout, but to actually make
it the toolbox for success.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
So you started kind of from the ground level and
then you kind of branched up with how did you
build your team out to make sure you started putting
the right people in place? And was it a lot
of maybe say trial and error, like going kind of
through people or like you said, your women have been
your twenty.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Plus years, Yeah, several of them have.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Like what was what was the kind of biggest barrier
other than you know what you talked about the state of.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Yeah, no, I think you know, it's like anything else.
As you're scaling, you you come into different challenges. Now
that we've done this a few times where we've had
these sort of capital expansions into new areas, what's actually
one of the things that keeps us successful is that
we're not going out and replicating all the fixed costs.
There's not a k ME and Boca and a and
an OPS director in Boca, there's not one in Stewart,
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and you know, so we're not repeating, we're running at
all from our headquarters, and so that allows this to
actually be more efficient and more effective. And then what
we've learned over time is that you actually have to
more people on the ground level, you know. And so
you know, we've changed. We've been challenged with a few
things here core infrastructure wise, but I think we're getting
there now where we're finally able to And and I'm
pretty conservative too, so you know, I don't like spending
(09:48):
where I don't need to, obviously, right, and so cause
you know, you don't know what's around the corner, and
just expanding as you need to. And again we've we've
had some stumbling blocks, but now I think we're at
a place where we're ready for the next jump, whatever
that might look like.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Love it. So what do you think it looks like?
Speaker 4 (10:06):
I keep saying like people like, why are you gonna
get another campus? When are you gonna move into Dade
County or Orlando? And I'm like, we don't have a
plan to do that at this point. We have five campuses,
we have some statewide programs, We got a pretty big
budget we got to raise every year, and so what
we're really focused on is expanding ourselves programmatically and being
involved in some really good partnerships around the States, you know,
(10:27):
specifically looking at the anti human trafficking education right efforts
and so forth. Residentially, we are expanding on three of
our existing campuses. We have more available land than probably
any other charity in town really, and so we have
a lot of about twenty construction projects right now regionally,
So we're a lot of expansion addressing the housing need.
(10:47):
But we're not planning on going outside of our footprint
right now. But every time I've said that God's plied
something else on us, and I've been like, oh, I
got to take that back. So never say never.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Would they say, like, how do you make God laugh
on your plans?
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Yeah, that's exactly right. We've seen that happen.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
So your Shade Tree Family Outreach program offers emergency support
to foster families. Right, So what have you learned about
community gaps through that initiative? Like is it really kind
of brought the community together with this program or yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
It's awesome and that's a piece of what we do.
In fact, this week we loaded a fifty three foot
tractor trailer and sent it full of about eighty seven
thousand items to the Texas flood victims from I saw it, yeah,
and so that's a whole other part of what we do.
I don't like anything to go to waste. So when
people give to place of Hoope, it could be clothing,
it could be whatever it is, and we, you know,
we go through it for our own kids, our own
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young people, our families, and then we have partnerships after that,
and honestly, even on down the line, if it doesn't
need to be in the trash and someone can still
benefit from it, we load them up in containers and
send them to places in Haiti and Jamaica as well.
So you know, Shade Tree is a pretty big deal.
But what we were found though, is helping these relative
and non relative caregivers, so nonlice foster families that take
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their family members in, which is a huge number, and
licensed foster families. If we can help these people with
simple things like food and diapers and car seats and
strollers and the things they need to take a young
person in, it makes it possible. So what we're finding
is a generous community of companies and churches and temples
and people who step up that actually want to do
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a drive for us. Sure, we're building warehouses right now,
all four donated goods that go right back out the door.
So we're in a generous community and I love it.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
I love it, And Squad, if you hear a little
bit about what my good friend Charles is talking about,
He's he's grown. He's open to growth, but he's strategically growing.
And he's like I like to say, even with my clients,
so inch by inches of CeNSE right by the yard.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
It's hard.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
He prays on it.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
But the biggest thing is they take action right. Action
is really the most important part.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Of the best board of directors and even people on
our councils that are always it's always a yes if
it makes sense.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
I love it, and Squad, We're going to take a
little bit of a break right now and send you
over to my good friend and sponsor, Steve Austin with
the Dynamic Mortgage Team.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
He's going to tell us a little bit about the
market and we come back.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
We're going to kind of talk a little bit with
Charles about kind of the public policy in Florida and
also get to know Charles a little bit more of
a personal level, So stay tuned and we'll.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Be right back.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Thanks Scott. Steve Austin here with the Revolution Mortgage Dynamic
team with your mortgage market recap for the week of
July twenty eighth, and welcome to August. As expected, the
FED held steady and once again didn't make a cut
to the FED rate despite the pressure from Trump in
his press conference, Fed share Prowle didn't sound like they're
thinking about making cuts anytime soon. In September, we did, however,
see unemployment move back up to the four point two percent,
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which was expected, in a huge decline in payroll numbers,
which was the big one that no one was really
expecting and is one of the indicators that we need
to see making these moves to help continue helping our
mortgage rates. This could mean the data is finally catching
up to help give the relief and the rates that
we've all been looking for. Still a lot to unfold
with the tariffs officially going in to affect this month,
(14:00):
so we'll be paying attention. That's it for this week.
Have a great weekend everyone. This is Steve Austin, your
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Speaker 1 (15:13):
Healthy, Leader, hey steve thank you.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
So much THE market i see is still a little slow,
out there but it's getting a little. Bit better, but
again thank you so much for. The Update, Steve So
charles so when you look at kind of the current
Policy in florida around foster care and, human, trafficking like
what are the biggest both sides successes and failures that
you're seeing in the.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
GOVERNMENT response, I.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Mean i would tell you, you know as, you know
we live in the greatest state in. The nation florida
leads the way in so, many ways and so we
do have a lot of conservative leadership that actually Cares
and i've just witnessed that over. The years now is?
Speaker 1 (15:50):
It?
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Perfect NO is, i mean policy regarding child welfare is just,
it's messy and it comes out of the, federal government
drips down to the states and then they tweak it.
From There but, i'd say, you know we have leadership
in this from the governor to the legislators that that
actually really do try to look at the best interests.
Of children it's always going to be an. Underfunded system
it is always and THAT'S why i personally believe in
(16:11):
the model they move to An Under jeb bush when
they privatize. The system so the idea, is like, you
know the government doesn't, build roads they contract out to
the best road builders, in, Town, right well they did
that with child well fare, years ago and what it
said to those of us on the nonprofit, side, is
hey we're not going to be the only people with
skin in. The game you gotta a, good program and
you need to raise a dollar for the dollar we.
Give YOU so i actually like that because it puts
(16:32):
the private sector in the leadership of let's really run
a good, system here and so that's a big part
OF why i think we have a lot. OF successes
i really don't know if it's ever gonna get systemically
better for kids in. This SYSTEM and i think there's
an idea out there that kids should never be in.
The system and that's great if you have an intact family.
(16:52):
That's working but when it, comes, IN yeah i think
they could still make a lot. Of improvements but. It's
hard it's really hard to get great people to step
up to take kids into their. Own home there's there's always,
a need. You know and when you're dealing with the,
TRAFFICKING issues, i mean we're in a. Transient state we're
in a state where a lot of this stuff goes
on third in the nation with the calls and, so
forth and so, you know we're always we've seen trafficking
(17:13):
victims since We started Place, of, hope right but now
we get them with actual codifications in their file that
they know that these they've been run by gangs here,
and there, and it's, you know it's more and more
of that all. The time it's it's a.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Tough, Deal yeah and the people that you're kind of
putting in place have got to HAVE a i gut
kind of a really open mind mentality when it comes
to working with the women that, you know unfortunately are
going through what they're, going through the, foster children also the, human,
trafficking yeah as well. And SQUAD what i Love about
Charles and i'm really kind of getting the know now he's,
(17:44):
Planting trees he's never going to sit in the SHADE of,
i mean this is like it's going to go and
grow and he's going to make sure it's in the.
Right hands and so like talking about that kind of.
The endowment, You, know charles you know You're playing Place
of hope's long, term, Legacy right so so how do
you ensure that impact of the? Future generations like this
generational legacy not just a okay it's hot, right now
(18:08):
but like generation what are you doing to make sure
that it stays intact even after we go meet.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Our, MAKER yeah i mean we're. We're in, you know
we've been in a process of when we formed this
campaign and who's around for it and, you know building,
you know helping us, with it who's helping us build,
the endowment who's responsible for, its investments and how in
the investment policy statements and how well it does for
that part of. The legacy, you know we're really trying
to get place ope to this point where one day
(18:34):
when we all decide it is time, for retirement we
hand off a very healthy ORGANIZATION that i don't want
to say be easy, to run but from a lot,
of perspectives it's. Well oiled and some of that's financial
and some of that's, you know. Internal policy, you know
we're not an organization that runs around just trying to
find board members to find. Board members like they're very
selective in terms of why are you really wanting to
(18:54):
be on this board, of directors and because we need
you to look at it a, certain way because we
want this thing to live on and by the way,
it works so we can't be told it, doesn't right,
You know and so we were always very careful about
how we expand, our board replaced board members when, they
leave and. So FORTH but i will tell you it's
all of them making, this legacy and everybody wants to see,
(19:16):
it persist, you know the in the, long game so.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Of it and so who do you have as an
advisor that, you respect that you go to because everyone's coming, to,
You right so who is that person in your life
other than probably? Your, wife yeah, you know, but like
who do?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
You, Have Yeah i've actually that's one of THE things
i love about my. Boarder directors i've got folks on
THERE that i can genuinely confide in and. Go to and,
you know one's my, board chairman who's been my board
chairman for, Twenty years Mickey, and sarah very successful, business
guy a very successful husband, and father AND so i
can take Anything, to mickey. You know and the Next
Is tom lane and other board member is exact, same
(19:53):
thing very successful in all those same. Exact WAYS and
i was on the phone with him. Just yesterday so it's,
you Know and MICKEY and i talk pretty much. Every
day so it's nice when you can bounce ideas and
things and and you got guys like that who uh and,
You Know leanne rinker is, another one a very well
known name, in town very, successful family and is great
for me to crall and bounce things. Off of and
(20:15):
and you know it's not always, a yes that's not.
The point. It's it but they can give insight from
years of of, that serious great experience in business.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
And, others right it's nice to have.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Those giants we can stand on the shoulders of right
and of see a lot of them have been where
The path i'm, blessed from Like Sam, A's RockA, geary
shapiro my my guys, as WELL that i look back
and and. See, that so, you know Leadership within Place
of hope seems to be centered on building trusts and.
Team effectiveness so how do you cultivate that culture when
(20:44):
so many of your organizations? Don't intersect you Know what.
I'm saying it's like you have, you know the child,
you know, foster care but then human trafficking and so.
There's that so how do you like keep the leadership
in place to keep everyone on board moving?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
That, direction yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
IT'S tough i used to actually launch programs and then
go back and tell my team about it other after
the fact that. They forgive they asked me to stop,
doing THAT so i stopped. Doing that, but no THEY
just i think everybody's all IN they, i mean they
trust the. Decision making they KNOW that i am bouncing
things off. Of boarders they know that we. Do pray
we know we've been approached by groups to say would you,
do this would you get into this for us or,
(21:18):
you know for the state, Or whatever and we always
go back, and say, you know we'll pray, about it,
we'll consult and we'll get back. To you so it's
never off. The cuff it's never just a knee. Jerk
reaction you will do this out or, the other, You
know so that that is definitely, a big big part
of it, for US and i think that our team. Just,
knows look it is more difficult because we're also living
in a time right now it's hard to find high
(21:40):
quality people who really want to go the extra mile
right and understand. The vision, YOU know i joke around
all the time that people coming in that are new they, may,
say well Why does charles take time to care about
their fingerprints on the front door of.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
The, office well let me.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Tell, You why because it's a much deeper conversation about
people's investments and us being responsible for what they gave
and us showing gratitude for. Their GIFT and i don't
care if it was ten years ago that they put
there on. This building that shows that we're caring for
what people have, invested in so keeping that on the
forefront and those kinds. Of THINGS but i will tell you,
real quick people come for, tours whatever they, meet me
(22:14):
and then, they meet, you know somebody else high up in,
the organization and then they meet people all the way down.
The line they will literally come back to me, and
say every SINGLE person i met on the team is
just as jazzed up, and excited and that's some PROFESSIONAL
and i love to hear that because it is a.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Great, Team yeah and that's that's one thing with with
my Employees that i'm blessed to have working, For ME
like i have eight, of them and like they went
out and said things about being on the team that
you KNOW that i never thought that they. Would, say,
yeah right you're just kind of feeling feeling really blessed
about that because, you're thinking because.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
They, see, fergi yeah they don't really want to be
around it.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Too MUCH but i will tell you is it's still,
tough because as, you know when you hold, a standard
not everybody's always in the line for that right because
sometimes it's things sometimes they don't, like what, you know
the interpretation of. That standard and so holding the standard, that's,
leadership period that's part. Of leadership and we're going to
hold that standard because That's what god's called.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Us, to do, Right absolutely so, looking, forward like How
does Place of hope plan to innovate the kind of its,
prevention programming especially like around the kind of, child welfare
kind OF post covid kind of Thing that i'm sure that,
you know there's some politics that were that's kind of going,
out there and also the, you know as human trafficking.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Threats, evolved yeah we're. Doing it we.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Do it just a few, years ago we completely, shifted
gears got out of a certain level of foster care in.
The community we license hundreds. Of beds we literally. Got
out the reason we got out is we saw the
need in another area that we wanted to use, limited
resources and so we've ramped Up That shade tree program that,
you mentioned and then overnight we're serving thousands, a year
thousands and a lot of them are just, local families
(23:49):
and we just knew we had the ability to go
to our donor base, and say would you also? Do
this would you also do? A drive would you do
a month worth of diapers? In formula, and this that and,
The other and they're all stepping up to, do it
and so we're having a. Huge impact you have to.
STAY nimble i don't care what business. It is social
work is still. A business charity is, a business and
so you have to. Stay NIMBLE and i love the
fact that. We do we've we've shut down programs to,
(24:11):
Start programs we've shut down programs that they just weren't
having the impact that they used. To have, you know
a lot of charities don't. Do that they sit on
their hands and and and and that's why it becomes.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
A failure subsidies accept all that, stuff exactly but action.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
On It right i'm being told right now by several
people that there are a lot of charities right now
hurting because they were so heavily dependent on, government money
and government money money is getting cut all, over, local,
federal state and. You can't you have to have a
balanced approach, and, Everything, right.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
So How does charles want Is dash remember that little
line in between your incarnation date and your, expiration date
your life dating.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
That date hopefully it's way down. The line but How does.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Charles helps on a stashmer, well done good and faithful?
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Servants, love, yeah yeah maybe slide across home blade bumped,
and bruised.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
But the, right way not quite looking.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
The way ANOTHER thing i love is that We're In, palm,
beach right and you are doing things for, the intention not.
The attention and around here is so much about, the,
attention right but you're bringing it on through people like
your pr rep, over here your stin right and and things.
Like THIS but, I love i have to give your
props man like you're doing things for, the intention and
(25:18):
thank you for doing THAT because i have a huge
inventetta against especially human trafficking and being a part of
the foster life, myself personally thank you for what.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
You're, Doing, brother.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Well this certainly is not. Just me it's a team
of people that operate the exact, same way and they're
part of it. As, well yes, you know, thank you
and you're part of it because you're helping get the.
Word out yeah it's not for, the ATTENTION but i
but we do know, that organizationally. Attention matters you do
have to stay in the forefront because you know what's
the next new shiny object, in town right and then
and you know our our donor base days, With us. Thank, goodness,
(25:49):
yes yeah but.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
You're not it's just like you're not leaning, out there
leaning against lambeaus and.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Like doing stuff.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Like that, you know you're actually showing Proof of like
if you go To their, instagram squad which will be
in the, show notes you'll see stories.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Of people that.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Are legit we'll congraduates of your program in. A. Sense right,
so yeah the last couple of, minutes here it's all,
about you the. Stages yours can you tell us how
to find you in any events that you might have a?
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Coming?
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Up, oh yeah we Have our light In the shadows event.
Coming up it's At. Mar lago It is phenomenal's. Year
Three jill Gallagher And jordan brown or our. Co chairs
they are just doing a great job and we're going to.
SELL out, i mean and it's one of the it's
the only event that we do fundraising wise that is
specifically for our efforts in anti human trafficking that might
(26:35):
be what we're, doing residentially it might be what we're
doing statewide on the, prevention side but it just really
helps us bring. A focus, you know there's so many
people that want to do something as you know about,
the issue, right well, some people, you know they're not
going to all Do What tim tebow's doing and your
friends they go off and find, these kids but, you
know they can be a part of place hope where
we're taking care of them, in house and they can
also learn how to, you know what to be, looking for,
(26:56):
you know talking to their their sisters kids about what
they're looking that online and you're knowing these things and
so it. Funds that it's a big part. Of that
and then we've got this artist and wine festival that's
going on at the Boat over town at the at
the resort, down there which they it's, their event but
they chose. US thankfully i think It's in january for
this event and it's gonna be their national attention and
(27:18):
we're going to benefit from that financially and in every.
Other way so we got things that go, year round
but those are a couple that are coming Up real
soon's that's.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Fantastic one this we. Wrap up thank you for.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Coming on this is amazing, and blessed and thank You
to kirsten for for introducing me to you. As well
and the number is five six one seven seven five
seven one. Ninety five right, and again squad that's five
six one, seven seven five seven one nine five five
six one seven seven five seven one ninety five or
Go to Place of hope dot Com again Place of hope.
(27:51):
Dot com thank you a huge shout out to My
Producer brian mudd THE w J and o to My Friend.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Kirston miller thanks you so much for. Coming. On charles
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