January 22, 2024 • 27 mins
Kelly Nichols from Respiratory Health Association discusses the organization and upcoming events. Joy Squier with the Red Cross chats with us about the ABC7 Great Chicago Blood Drive. Megan and Steve Goerth from the World Literacy Foundation chat about the Harry Moon Books.
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Hello, and welcome to the weeklyshow here on iHeartRadio on ninety three nine,
Light FM one on three five,Kiss at Them and Rock ninety five
to five. I'm Paulina, andevery week we're here to discuss a variety
of topics that matter to Chicago Land, from health, to education, to
finances and so much more. Todayon the show, we have a new
episode from Brady and Whitney Reynolds forWhitney's Women. They're chatting with Kelly Nichols
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from the Respiratory Health Organization, andlater on in the show they'll also chat
with the World Literacy Foundation featuring Meganand Steve, and I'll be chatting with
our friend Joy Squire from the RedCross. We're talking about the ABC seven
Great Chicago Blood Drive happening in Chicagoin various locations. Here to kick off
the show are Brady and Whitney Reynolds. Man, it is the cold winter
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months, but not in here,not in the studio. Oh no,
oh no, it is warm.It is warm. Hearts, warm feelings,
warm vibes, because the one andonly Whitney Reynolds is here. My
goodness, my hype guy does itagain. In twenty twenty four, Brady,
this is her first Whitneys Women ofthe Year. We're to get off
with a bang too. We reallyare and a big And when I say
big, I'm also going to addtall. And I'm not talking about my
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guests, but I'll get to whywe're saying tall. But it is a
big mission that we have in here. Kelly Nichols, welcome to the show.
Thank you Whitney's Women, and tellus about the Respiratory Health Association.
So, Respiratory Health Association is alocal lung health organization. It's a nonprofit
and we've been a lung health leadersince nineteen oh six. We work to
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prevent lung disease, promote clean air, and help people live better through education,
research and policy change. So wehave a bunch of different departments that
do a bunch of different things.But one of the things we're best known
for is our events, and oneof them is a hustle up the Hancock
Building, which we now just callHustle since it's now not called the Hancock
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Building, so it's oh, it'snot, no, it's not anymore.
Okay, it's known by its address, but it's our hustle and we all
climb this huge building every sort oflate winter, early spring, and it's
a blast tall tall. So thatis why I said this is the biggest
interview we've done yet this year.Flights stairs. Here's the thing that sounds
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really aggressive, but I have doneit before, Yes, and I'm doing
it again. I'm making a Whitneyteam. Now, Brady, I will
ask you to be on the Whitneyteam. I know that's it. When
is the date? Yeah, okay, we're getting right into it. Yes,
the date is Sunday, February twentyfifth of this Okay, good,
okay, So well we got toget a bunch of other people. Yeah.
I named my team stories and staresright, because we're going to share
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stories as we're hiking those ninety fourSo okay, So Brady's my only recruit
so far, but you're recruiting actuallythe whole city to join because you do
it in different wavelengths. So peoplecan do it early, they can do
it late, but they don't actuallyget to pick their time. Y'all assigned
them a time, but it canbe so many people that do it.
Let's talk about what that day.Since I mean we jumped right into this
let's talk about that day and whatactually goes into it. Yeah, well,
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it's funny. I've worked with RespiratoryHealth Association for a little about three
years. Are so little over threeyears, but I've been doing the Hustle
for ten years. This is mytenth climb, and I really love it
because it feels like ninety four floorsis a lot a lot. But to
be honest with you, the averagetime that people take to complete it is
like under thirty minutes. It's reallylike you climb the building it. The
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thing I love about it is thateverybody gets together at the bottom. You
wait for your wave, you hangout with your team. Anticipation is building.
Everyone's so excited. You come aroundthe corner and then you're off and
you're up the building. And it'sso great because there's inspirational posters the whole
way up. There's you know,medics if you need help, no one's
going to be mad at you ifyou pull over and take a break.
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There's waters, competitive walkers there,yes, well, and there's I never
knew there was such a thing.But there's also elite stair climbers, you
guys, like it's literally like thosepeople climb that building in like seven to
ten minutes, like they leap that. I'm just like they started all off
that morning. They do. Theystart very early because they need that stairway
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clear for this style of climb thatthey do, which is apparently competitive.
Stair climbing is a worldwide phenomenon.So we have a wave of that group
of people. Typically the waves startpretty early in the morning and everybody kind
of wraps up and goes to theafter party by like midday. We're so
bad that I like signed up tobe one of the first. I hope
I'm not with that. I actuallyput in their request to be like the
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first that morning. No. Ithink it's great and you'll like it.
It's just what I love about itis that it has such a positive vibe.
It's such a celebration. There's anafter party, and then also the
cool part about it is that whenyou're in the stairs, you're with your
team or you're sort of with yourthoughts, and it's kind of a nice
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break to just climb the building inknow that you're doing it to help people
with lung health issues and know thatyou're doing it for a really great cause.
Well, and one thing I loveabout this year is you're back at
the unmentionable building that's changed names thatwere. You're doing the hustle again post
COVID, and I have to tellyou the the last time I did the
hustle, I hadn't had kids yet, and when I had my twins,
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my daughter had lung issues. Youknow, twins are known for that.
They gave me a really heavy shota week before when I was about to
deliver early and they really need todevelop their lungs. We ended up holding
them. But my daughter when shewas born, had trouble with her lungs,
and so this has become very personalfor me. Whenever you think about
lung health, because it's not justI mean, if you think about our
lungs, there's so many different waysthat you impact people, even down to
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our babies and their lungs, butyou also deal with, you know,
people that have had problems with smokingand that kind. I mean, it's
amazing your reach and who you're helping. Yes, it is. I actually
also have twins. I don't knowif you know it didn't hello hello mom?
Yeah, my luckily my twins wereborn at thirty seven weeks and three
days, so they were really great. They came late enough that we didn't
need to do any kind of erirtyseven on the dots. But see,
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that's the thing though, It's alla variability, and all this stuff can
be genetic and environmentally influenced and cancause all kinds of problems for different people,
different age And I'm not just talkingabout asthma. I'm talking about asthma,
COPD, lung cancer. We haveprograms that help people with tobacco cessation.
We have programs like the group thatI lead goes to Springfields and works
with legislators to find healthy ways tosupport people who have chronic lung health issues
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or lung health issues at the statepolicy level. It's really kind of comprehensive
what we do. And that's oneof the things that makes it so exciting
to support Hustle is raising all thismoney for such a great cause. We
fund a lung cancer research program,and we do a ton of education in
the schools and with the public aboutthe dangers of air pollution and smoking and
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all that kind of stuff. Andit's just really exciting to be a part
of a moment that is going tocreate that possibility for people absolutely. Okay,
give us the info again about themorning and where people go to get
tickets, right, Well, theyhave to go online to restphealth dot com
and look for hustle. So thehustle is the is the or I'm sorry
not dot com. Sorry, it'srest heelth dot org. And then they're
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gonna look for hustle and they getto sign up. I think sign up
closes. Team registration closes on Januarytwenty sixth. Individual registration closes on February
sixteenth. But it's really it's reallygreat to support a great cause. The
event itself starts as six thirty.That would be the Elite Wave, and
I think it's kind of that's notme. And it's all done at two
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o'clock. We have a little afterparty cross the street and and well we
get our medals and bananas and weall go home. It's super easy to
sign up to I did it whenI was on our way to the lake
house. I signed up for myteam. I haven't announced our team yet,
but now I now have a newteammate Friday, and so it's like
easy and you get to put inyou know, it does ask you like
your story, but it's really nicetoo, because we all have lungs.
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Hello, thank you so much forcoming on. I can already see Whitney
Reynolds with her born like babe.You know you know, I'm like conditioning
for this. Brady is like anew year, new me. I know
you are. I'm gonna start workingout for it too. And speaking of
which, there's so much going onwith the Whitney Red Show. I want
you to mark your calendars. Thenew season hits in April, and we
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want you to catch up before then. We are the voice of hope for
you, the nation and your story. Hi, it's Paulina here with iHeartMedia
Chicago, and today I am talkingwith our friend Joyce Squire, communications director
at Illinois Red Cross. How areyou. I'm great? How are you,
Paulina. I'm so good today.Thank you for being here on the
show. You and I have alot to discuss, and we are of
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course talking the ABC seven Great ChicagoBlood Drive, which is happening on January
seventeenth and eighteenth. We're going totalk all about it in a second,
but before we dive into the importanceof the blood drive and especially now why
it's even more important than ever.Can you just give us a breves kind
of background on yourself and your role. Yeah, I'm part of the Illinois
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Red Cross, which represents eighty eightcounties all across the state of Illinois.
We collect blood, we respond todisaster, We're there to help military member.
But right now, you know,we're talking about blood collection because there
is an emergency need for blood atthis moment. Absolutely, And you were
telling me a little bit of thisoff the air, you know, and
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you and I were kind of talkinga little bit, and you know,
right now it is more important thanever. And I feel like you did
mention that. A lot of times, you know, a lot of the
same people do come and donate,which is so appreciated and so amazing,
but it's time to get new peopleout. Yeah, how do we do
that? Absolutely, we are experiencingan emergency blood shortage, and the Red
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Cross has noted that it's the lowestnumber of people really donating in twenty years.
So and I think the reason forthat is really because, you know,
for one thing, COVID, becausewe don't we can't meet people as
easily in their office locations, theirbusiness locations as we used to be able
to, so that's one of thereasons. But also a lot of new
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donors are really needed because you neverknow when somebody in your f family needs
to give blood. You know,cancer patients use up to a quarter of
the blood supply. Birth trauma isa common reason for blood transfusion, surgeries,
transplants, conditions like sickle cell.So there's so many reasons when people
need it. But I don't thinkpeople understand just how easy it is to
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give blood. Absolutely, I couldn'tagree more with that. So how then,
how does it work with you know, I'm sure people have questions,
right, how do I know thatI'm that I'm eligible or that I can
donate blood? How do I knowthat I should be you're able to participate
in this? Like those common questionsthat you guys get, Do you mind
addressing a couple of them? Sure, well, you just have to be
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sixteen with the parent's consent or seventeenwithout, so you can come out and
donate blood. It's estimated more thansixty percent of the population can easily donate
blood. That's most people really wereally need, you know, all different
blood types, all different ethnicity.The closer blood is matched when receiving it,
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the better for the patient. Soreally everybody, we need our blood
supply to mirror our population, andso that means everybody coming out and donating
and giving the gift of life.You know. The one thing about blood
is that it can't be manufactured.There's not a medicine you can give instead
of blood. It really can onlybe given by the generosity of individuals.
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Absolutely, and also to with theABC seven Great Chicago Blood Drive happening January
seventeenth and eighteenth, it's the largesttwo day Red a Cross blood drive in
the country. So let's talk aboutyou know, this is a great start
for those who want to come outwho want to donate blood. Where is
this taking place? What time allof that good stuff, Well, it's
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over two days, January seventeenth andeighteenth, from seven am to seven pm.
On day one, January seventeenth,the Wednesday will be at the Merchandise
will also be at the Schomberg HyattRegency, will be in Northwest Indiana at
Highland Parks and Recreation Field House.And then in day two January eighteenth,
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Thursday will be at the Tinley ParkConvention Center the foglea YMCA in Lake Zurich
will be in the city on thesouth side of Amani Village on ninety fifth
Street in Chicago. And then againwe'll also be for a second day at
Highland Parks and Recreation field House inHighland, Indiana in northwest Indiana. So
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seven different locations really going on overtwo days, and we have a lot
of appointments open a lot. Wereally need people to make appointments and commit
to giving the gift of life absolutelyand where can we go to make those
appointments? Well, it's really easyto make appointments. You can go to
Redcrossblood dot org and put in thesponsor code ABC seven Chicago that's red Crossblood
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dot org. Or you can callone eight hundred Red Cross, or you
can make an appointment through the RedCross Blood Donor app Too beautiful, and
again one more time, what isa good website for those who want to
either book an appointment, to getmore information or just simply even see where
the locations are taking place? Youknow, on Wednesday the seventeenth and Thursday
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the eighteenth of January. Where canwe go? What's a good website?
Red Crossblood dot org is the perfectwebsite to go to you can put in
the sponsor code ABC seven Chicago andit will give you all the locations and
the appointments that are open, andjust click on one of the appointments and
you can sign up. You know, we'll be giving everybody. It's the
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tenth anniversary of this amazing drive.Over ten years, iHeartMedia and ABC seven
Chicago have partnered to make this areally successful event and we've collected you know,
thousands of units, but we needmore. You know, blood is
perishable, so we need to continueto do this and continue to have this
drive and others, you know,to help people in need, to help
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people. Every two seconds somebody inthe US needs blood and we're collecting for
hospital partners and patience. Yes,so important. Then well, thank you
so much for letting, you know, for bringing this to our attention,
and for coming on the show today, and also too, I love that
there's so many locations to choose from, so it's spread all across the city,
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in suburbs of Chicago, so Ireally even Indiana. So I really
think that this is super accessible forso many of us. And I think
it's a great you know, agreat cause and very very important to help
support if you can, you knowwhat I mean. Yeah, and you
even get the tenth anniversary ABC sevenChicago. iHeartMedia T shirt. Oh my
gosh, it's awesome. I wantone of those. That's cool. So
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cool. Well, thank you Joyfor being here with us today. We
appreciate it. Thank you, Thankyou. Paulina two twenty four is off
to an awesome start. In oneof the main reasons why her smile is
low in she brings all the lightinto a dark room. It is the
going Oh okay. It is theone and only from the Whitney Rentls Show.
Whitney Reynolds is back twenty twenty four. We are back, I know,
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seriously, we are really kicking thingsoff this month. I mean back
to back Whitney's Women, and youknow I say this every time. We
love our men, and today wehave a woman and a man, so
we are really doing it all onWhitney's Women. We have Harry Moon and
we also have the World Literacy Foundationthat Harry Moon is supporting. We have
Megan and Steve. Welcome to theshow. Hello, I know, I'm
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so glad you guys are here becausewe are kicking off the year and it
is so important when we think aboutour goals and what we're doing, and
reading really impacts so many people.Steve, do you want to tell us
a little bit about Harry Moon?Sure? Sure, so. Harry Moon
is a book series that we createdwith twenty one total books in the series.
It's written for the seven to twelveyear old reader. And what's different
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about Harry Moon compared to other bookswritten for that age is that we focus
on themes for each of our books. So each book has a theme anti
bullying, self acceptance, responsibility,and the goal is to get kids reading
again, but when they're reading,to teach them life lessons that are embedded
in our books. So it's almostlike they're reading a great, fun,
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engaging story, but at the sametime, they're learning lessons about issues that
affect them at that age between sevenand twelve. You know, you just
spurred this thought because as a momof seven year old twins, I think
about this. We live in sucha society of like iPads or these you
know, screen times. Let's takethat back. It's screen time. It
communing time to screen and I thinkit's so cool with what you said about
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actually reading and getting them in abook like we used to with the real
pages, smelling the paper, butthen there's a deeper meaning and I love
that. And Megan, I wantto bring you into the conversation with this
because there are so many things thatkids are taking away from it. Yeah,
no, for sure. You know, there's the thing I like most
about Hary Moon is the touch ofmagic that it is. So it's not
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only these life lessons, but youknow, it could relate to the kids
on a more you know, inspirationallevel, where they can you know,
imaginate and be inspired to do biggerand better things. And you're the World
Literacy Foundations Liaison, yes or HarryMoon. Yes. And so the book
series, not only are you helpingkids get back into reading and giving these
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themes, but you're also giving backin a big way. Tell us about
that. Yeah, you know,so the were literacy program with Harry Moon.
The whole point is to allow kidsall around the world, no matter
where they come from, to beable to read a book and to be
able to learn how to write,imagine all that kind of good stuff.
And what we're doing is we're givingthese kids just not only any literature,
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but Harry Moon specifically. So oneof the greatest projects we worked on recently,
if we want to talk about that, yeah, tell us about it
was in twenty twenty one. Weworked with a WLP. We call it
right for suret we can Oh YeahFoundation Foundation program. So we worked with
them to give access to kids inAfrica all these books. And you know,
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when you think of getting kids accessto books, you think paper,
you know, that's usually what wethink, but that's not really always accessible
to everyone, right, So theyactually created a e book so it's not
really ebook, but it's a ebookthat's powered via solar power. And we
made nine of our books available,our best selling books available to them through
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that, and we were able tospread this, you know, across Oh
that is wonderful. I love that. Super inclusive and that's going back to
some of those things. You know, bullying is such a hot topic,
especially when you have kids that aregrowing up and you hope your kids aren't
the bully. You hope they aren'tbeing bullied. Tell us about how you
give that messaging out in your book. Sure, So the whole concept started
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when we had a almost like afocus group. The series was in the
creation stage back in twenty fourteen andour goal was to not just be a
diary of a wimpy kid or Goosebumpsor some other book that's available, you
know, to kids this age.So we put together a focus group of
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teachers and principles and educators and anyoneinvolved in the literacy side of a child's
development, and we said, whatare you looking for in a children's book
series written for the seven to twelveyear old reader? And unequivocally they all
said, an engaging book that hasa lot of different like volumes, not
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a whords, is prolific, andthat has a theme or a message so
that you know, we can wecan teach it in the schools, you
know, and certainly bullying at thetime, you know, bully's always been
an issue, but at the timeit was just one of our other ideas.
You know, we felt that,you know that responsibility and friendship,
these are all things that are important. But you know, over the last
six seven, eight years, bullyinghas become really in the forefront and is
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a major problem in some schools andfor kids that age. So we made
our main character, Harry Moon,be sort of a geeky you know,
I don't know how everyone here wasin eighth grade. But I was a
complete geek, and so the geeks, the geeks I like them, still,
right, so he probably won't,you know. Yeah, So we
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made Harry a you know, aneighth grade geek who you know, has
has magic that goes beyond doing tricksare the tricks. It's sort of deep
magic and and but he can onlyuse his magic for good. And so
he exists in a world where,you know, the evil mayor has taken
over his town in in you know, upstate Massachusetts. And the whole story
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arc for the entire series is himversus the evil mayor, but fighting for
good. You know what, thewhole if you could conjugate it all down,
the idea behind it is being ahero in your own community. Wow,
as a seven to twelve year old. And that's the goal that we
go for, is to get thesekids understand that whatever they do in their
in their community, no matter howsmall that act is, it's important.
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Oh. I love that. Andthe World Literacy Foundation, it doesn't stop
with working with them, like youwere mentioning going into schools like you are
very big about spreading the message likeyou do literacy programs within schools. And
then you also have made an audiobookout of this. We have an audio
play. Actually, actually, wellwe've done book. I don't even know
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what's until I heard that it cameout right. So an audiobook is simply
an author or a narrator reading thebook, no sound effects, nothing.
An audio play is actually characters thatwe've assigned or chosen to play parts.
It's almost like if it could beon stage, it would be a play
or you know. So that's reallyfun. So our work with the World
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Literacy Foundation, yes, goes beyondthe sub Saharan book a program that Megan
talked about. What we do withthem is that we we help them put
books in kids' hands all around theworld. And you know, and that's
just not the world itself, it'sthe United States as well. You know.
We work with them in programs inDetroit and Miami and all the rest.
And the goal is is to raisemoney to get our books into the
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hands of underprivileged kids who really don'thave access to reading material, you know.
So that's that's the board. Andthen of course you know, we
do programs where any any order youbuy off our website, that is that
you use the discount code codew lfWorld Literacy Foundation, right, Okay,
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in the discount code section, wewill give you twenty five percent off that
order and take that twenty five percentand we will give it to to World
Literacy Foundation programming. What up?I love that? Okay, Megan,
tell us where this actually can allbe. You said, the webs I
give back to the World Literacy Foundation. What is the website so people can
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get involved? Well, we justwe just updated. It's Harry Moon Harrymon
dot com. Okay. You canfind it on a link there and there
is just a little blurb about thefoundation and our you know, connection and
responsibility with them, and then ifyou go to the end, there is
a section where you could donate.And then also, like we said,
if you buy any books and anythinglike that, twenty five percent goes to
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this foundation. And you know,I think it just really teaches these kids
a good lesson about it's not justabout reading, it's about giving back and
there's so much more to this HarryMoon community. Yes, And one thing
I've loved personally with my kid Iwas reading it is there is so many
of them. Like it's not justlike you read one and you're done.
You can actually keep going. Andit's kept my kids, especially my son,
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who's very hard to get in frontof a book. He's loving it.
He is wanting to just go throughbook after book, and so that's
so cool. Yeah, it is, it is, you know, book
reading. Reading is therapeutic. Iyou know, I was a troubled reader
myself, and so I never reallyread much when I was a kid,
and I didn't know it. I'myou know, I'm an ex gener and
we you know, you could bemildly dyslexic as an ex gener and no
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one would ever know. You know, it's only the it's only the next
generation of millennials that we started lookingat saying, hey, you have a
reading issue. You're reading below grade. And so what's great about the Harry
Moon books is that, you know, they're written for grade level readers,
but they're also the way we writethem, the font we use, the
difference between the paper and the ink, and then the way we organize the
book is very conducive to readers whoare either below grade or have have reading
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issues like dyslexia, you know,and like I read it. I read
it because sometimes I wake up withmild anxiety and I start reading and reading
reading, will you know, willtake away anxiety. It's oddest thing.
And I know you've you've you know, Megan, you've had that same issue
where you wake up and you're,you know, you're freaking out about the
day. You have the Sunday scaries, you know, and then you pick
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up a book at three in themorning and you could be anything, and
then you start reading and it's aoh, I love that too. We're
touching on so many great things.What a great kickoff to the year.
I mean, this is wonderful.Guys, thank you so much for coming
on and telling us give us thatwebsite one more time where people can get
involved. And the code were WorldLiteracy Foundation, Harrymoon dot org yep or
Harry Moon dot com. That's thechange we made is we secured both awesome
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because we want to make sure thatno matter what you put in dot com
dot org, it always reaches us. Yeah, and the code is World
Literacy Foundation is w l F.And there's a discount code section in our
in our shopping cart and it'll automaticallya World Literacy Foundation. I love it.
Thank you both so much for comingon. Thank you. I'm picturing
it now, It's like this isthe start of a big, big thing,
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Harry Moon, like an amusement park, a absolutely costume. I just
want to be one of those voicesin their next audio play. I could
be like the fun Onto that wasit. I already got the top.
I just switched into I know,I know, Well, thank you for
coming in, Whitney. Yes,what is coming up for you? You
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know? It is a new year, and I love it. Whenever I
always say a new me, butactually it's the same Whitney. But here's
what happened. At the end ofthe year. I took two weeks off
and I had time because it hadbeen such a fast year, amazing year
for the show. We won moreawards, we grew our footprint. However,
that's not why we're in this.I thought to myself, how do
we grow the mission? How dowe reach more viewers? So taking a
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step back, letting my brain calmdown was the most amazing thing, because
guys, twenty twenty four is here, and what I'm envisioning is so much
larger than we could ever stepped into. It's really being that voice of hope
for the nation. So coming upthis spring, you will see us on
all the streaming. We will bestreaming as much as you can, so
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we want you to be able tostream us. And we launch our new
season April fourth, and we reallywant to be that voice of hope for
the nation, so we want tohear your story. We're scouting new stories,
so go to Whitney Reynolds dot com. Thank you so much for tuning
in, and thank you thank youfor always supporting and listening to the Weekly
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We'll talk to you again next weekend.
Hello, and welcome to the weeklyshow here on iHeartRadio on ninety three nine,
Light FM one on three five,Kiss at Them and Rock ninety five
to five. I'm Paulina, andevery week we're here to discuss a variety
of topics that matter to Chicago Land, from health, to education, to
finances and so much more. Todayon the show, we have a new
episode from Brady and Whitney Reynolds forWhitney's Women. They're chatting with Kelly Nichols
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from the Respiratory Health Organization, andlater on in the show they'll also chat
with the World Literacy Foundation featuring Meganand Steve, and I'll be chatting with
our friend Joy Squire from the RedCross. We're talking about the ABC seven
Great Chicago Blood Drive happening in Chicagoin various locations. Here to kick off
the show are Brady and Whitney Reynolds. Man, it is the cold winter
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months, but not in here,not in the studio. Oh no,
oh no, it is warm.It is warm. Hearts, warm feelings,
warm vibes, because the one andonly Whitney Reynolds is here. My
goodness, my hype guy does itagain. In twenty twenty four, Brady,
this is her first Whitneys Women ofthe Year. We're to get off
with a bang too. We reallyare and a big And when I say
big, I'm also going to addtall. And I'm not talking about my
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guests, but I'll get to whywe're saying tall. But it is a
big mission that we have in here. Kelly Nichols, welcome to the show.
Thank you Whitney's Women, and tellus about the Respiratory Health Association.
So, Respiratory Health Association is alocal lung health organization. It's a nonprofit
and we've been a lung health leadersince nineteen oh six. We work to
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prevent lung disease, promote clean air, and help people live better through education,
research and policy change. So wehave a bunch of different departments that
do a bunch of different things.But one of the things we're best known
for is our events, and oneof them is a hustle up the Hancock
Building, which we now just callHustle since it's now not called the Hancock
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Building, so it's oh, it'snot, no, it's not anymore.
Okay, it's known by its address, but it's our hustle and we all
climb this huge building every sort oflate winter, early spring, and it's
a blast tall tall. So thatis why I said this is the biggest
interview we've done yet this year.Flights stairs. Here's the thing that sounds
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really aggressive, but I have doneit before, Yes, and I'm doing
it again. I'm making a Whitneyteam. Now, Brady, I will
ask you to be on the Whitneyteam. I know that's it. When
is the date? Yeah, okay, we're getting right into it. Yes,
the date is Sunday, February twentyfifth of this Okay, good,
okay, So well we got toget a bunch of other people. Yeah.
I named my team stories and staresright, because we're going to share
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stories as we're hiking those ninety fourSo okay, So Brady's my only recruit
so far, but you're recruiting actuallythe whole city to join because you do
it in different wavelengths. So peoplecan do it early, they can do
it late, but they don't actuallyget to pick their time. Y'all assigned
them a time, but it canbe so many people that do it.
Let's talk about what that day.Since I mean we jumped right into this
let's talk about that day and whatactually goes into it. Yeah, well,
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it's funny. I've worked with RespiratoryHealth Association for a little about three
years. Are so little over threeyears, but I've been doing the Hustle
for ten years. This is mytenth climb, and I really love it
because it feels like ninety four floorsis a lot a lot. But to
be honest with you, the averagetime that people take to complete it is
like under thirty minutes. It's reallylike you climb the building it. The
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thing I love about it is thateverybody gets together at the bottom. You
wait for your wave, you hangout with your team. Anticipation is building.
Everyone's so excited. You come aroundthe corner and then you're off and
you're up the building. And it'sso great because there's inspirational posters the whole
way up. There's you know,medics if you need help, no one's
going to be mad at you ifyou pull over and take a break.
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There's waters, competitive walkers there,yes, well, and there's I never
knew there was such a thing.But there's also elite stair climbers, you
guys, like it's literally like thosepeople climb that building in like seven to
ten minutes, like they leap that. I'm just like they started all off
that morning. They do. Theystart very early because they need that stairway
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clear for this style of climb thatthey do, which is apparently competitive.
Stair climbing is a worldwide phenomenon.So we have a wave of that group
of people. Typically the waves startpretty early in the morning and everybody kind
of wraps up and goes to theafter party by like midday. We're so
bad that I like signed up tobe one of the first. I hope
I'm not with that. I actuallyput in their request to be like the
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first that morning. No. Ithink it's great and you'll like it.
It's just what I love about itis that it has such a positive vibe.
It's such a celebration. There's anafter party, and then also the
cool part about it is that whenyou're in the stairs, you're with your
team or you're sort of with yourthoughts, and it's kind of a nice
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break to just climb the building inknow that you're doing it to help people
with lung health issues and know thatyou're doing it for a really great cause.
Well, and one thing I loveabout this year is you're back at
the unmentionable building that's changed names thatwere. You're doing the hustle again post
COVID, and I have to tellyou the the last time I did the
hustle, I hadn't had kids yet, and when I had my twins,
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my daughter had lung issues. Youknow, twins are known for that.
They gave me a really heavy shota week before when I was about to
deliver early and they really need todevelop their lungs. We ended up holding
them. But my daughter when shewas born, had trouble with her lungs,
and so this has become very personalfor me. Whenever you think about
lung health, because it's not justI mean, if you think about our
lungs, there's so many different waysthat you impact people, even down to
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our babies and their lungs, butyou also deal with, you know,
people that have had problems with smokingand that kind. I mean, it's
amazing your reach and who you're helping. Yes, it is. I actually
also have twins. I don't knowif you know it didn't hello hello mom?
Yeah, my luckily my twins wereborn at thirty seven weeks and three
days, so they were really great. They came late enough that we didn't
need to do any kind of erirtyseven on the dots. But see,
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that's the thing though, It's alla variability, and all this stuff can
be genetic and environmentally influenced and cancause all kinds of problems for different people,
different age And I'm not just talkingabout asthma. I'm talking about asthma,
COPD, lung cancer. We haveprograms that help people with tobacco cessation.
We have programs like the group thatI lead goes to Springfields and works
with legislators to find healthy ways tosupport people who have chronic lung health issues
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or lung health issues at the statepolicy level. It's really kind of comprehensive
what we do. And that's oneof the things that makes it so exciting
to support Hustle is raising all thismoney for such a great cause. We
fund a lung cancer research program,and we do a ton of education in
the schools and with the public aboutthe dangers of air pollution and smoking and
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all that kind of stuff. Andit's just really exciting to be a part
of a moment that is going tocreate that possibility for people absolutely. Okay,
give us the info again about themorning and where people go to get
tickets, right, Well, theyhave to go online to restphealth dot com
and look for hustle. So thehustle is the is the or I'm sorry
not dot com. Sorry, it'srest heelth dot org. And then they're
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gonna look for hustle and they getto sign up. I think sign up
closes. Team registration closes on Januarytwenty sixth. Individual registration closes on February
sixteenth. But it's really it's reallygreat to support a great cause. The
event itself starts as six thirty.That would be the Elite Wave, and
I think it's kind of that's notme. And it's all done at two
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o'clock. We have a little afterparty cross the street and and well we
get our medals and bananas and weall go home. It's super easy to
sign up to I did it whenI was on our way to the lake
house. I signed up for myteam. I haven't announced our team yet,
but now I now have a newteammate Friday, and so it's like
easy and you get to put inyou know, it does ask you like
your story, but it's really nicetoo, because we all have lungs.
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Hello, thank you so much forcoming on. I can already see Whitney
Reynolds with her born like babe.You know you know, I'm like conditioning
for this. Brady is like anew year, new me. I know
you are. I'm gonna start workingout for it too. And speaking of
which, there's so much going onwith the Whitney Red Show. I want
you to mark your calendars. Thenew season hits in April, and we
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want you to catch up before then. We are the voice of hope for
you, the nation and your story. Hi, it's Paulina here with iHeartMedia
Chicago, and today I am talkingwith our friend Joyce Squire, communications director
at Illinois Red Cross. How areyou. I'm great? How are you,
Paulina. I'm so good today.Thank you for being here on the
show. You and I have alot to discuss, and we are of
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course talking the ABC seven Great ChicagoBlood Drive, which is happening on January
seventeenth and eighteenth. We're going totalk all about it in a second,
but before we dive into the importanceof the blood drive and especially now why
it's even more important than ever.Can you just give us a breves kind
of background on yourself and your role. Yeah, I'm part of the Illinois
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Red Cross, which represents eighty eightcounties all across the state of Illinois.
We collect blood, we respond todisaster, We're there to help military member.
But right now, you know,we're talking about blood collection because there
is an emergency need for blood atthis moment. Absolutely, And you were
telling me a little bit of thisoff the air, you know, and
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you and I were kind of talkinga little bit, and you know,
right now it is more important thanever. And I feel like you did
mention that. A lot of times, you know, a lot of the
same people do come and donate,which is so appreciated and so amazing,
but it's time to get new peopleout. Yeah, how do we do
that? Absolutely, we are experiencingan emergency blood shortage, and the Red
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Cross has noted that it's the lowestnumber of people really donating in twenty years.
So and I think the reason forthat is really because, you know,
for one thing, COVID, becausewe don't we can't meet people as
easily in their office locations, theirbusiness locations as we used to be able
to, so that's one of thereasons. But also a lot of new
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donors are really needed because you neverknow when somebody in your f family needs
to give blood. You know,cancer patients use up to a quarter of
the blood supply. Birth trauma isa common reason for blood transfusion, surgeries,
transplants, conditions like sickle cell.So there's so many reasons when people
need it. But I don't thinkpeople understand just how easy it is to
(10:18):
give blood. Absolutely, I couldn'tagree more with that. So how then,
how does it work with you know, I'm sure people have questions,
right, how do I know thatI'm that I'm eligible or that I can
donate blood? How do I knowthat I should be you're able to participate
in this? Like those common questionsthat you guys get, Do you mind
addressing a couple of them? Sure, well, you just have to be
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sixteen with the parent's consent or seventeenwithout, so you can come out and
donate blood. It's estimated more thansixty percent of the population can easily donate
blood. That's most people really wereally need, you know, all different
blood types, all different ethnicity.The closer blood is matched when receiving it,
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the better for the patient. Soreally everybody, we need our blood
supply to mirror our population, andso that means everybody coming out and donating
and giving the gift of life.You know. The one thing about blood
is that it can't be manufactured.There's not a medicine you can give instead
of blood. It really can onlybe given by the generosity of individuals.
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Absolutely, and also to with theABC seven Great Chicago Blood Drive happening January
seventeenth and eighteenth, it's the largesttwo day Red a Cross blood drive in
the country. So let's talk aboutyou know, this is a great start
for those who want to come outwho want to donate blood. Where is
this taking place? What time allof that good stuff, Well, it's
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over two days, January seventeenth andeighteenth, from seven am to seven pm.
On day one, January seventeenth,the Wednesday will be at the Merchandise
will also be at the Schomberg HyattRegency, will be in Northwest Indiana at
Highland Parks and Recreation Field House.And then in day two January eighteenth,
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Thursday will be at the Tinley ParkConvention Center the foglea YMCA in Lake Zurich
will be in the city on thesouth side of Amani Village on ninety fifth
Street in Chicago. And then againwe'll also be for a second day at
Highland Parks and Recreation field House inHighland, Indiana in northwest Indiana. So
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seven different locations really going on overtwo days, and we have a lot
of appointments open a lot. Wereally need people to make appointments and commit
to giving the gift of life absolutelyand where can we go to make those
appointments? Well, it's really easyto make appointments. You can go to
Redcrossblood dot org and put in thesponsor code ABC seven Chicago that's red Crossblood
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dot org. Or you can callone eight hundred Red Cross, or you
can make an appointment through the RedCross Blood Donor app Too beautiful, and
again one more time, what isa good website for those who want to
either book an appointment, to getmore information or just simply even see where
the locations are taking place? Youknow, on Wednesday the seventeenth and Thursday
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the eighteenth of January. Where canwe go? What's a good website?
Red Crossblood dot org is the perfectwebsite to go to you can put in
the sponsor code ABC seven Chicago andit will give you all the locations and
the appointments that are open, andjust click on one of the appointments and
you can sign up. You know, we'll be giving everybody. It's the
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tenth anniversary of this amazing drive.Over ten years, iHeartMedia and ABC seven
Chicago have partnered to make this areally successful event and we've collected you know,
thousands of units, but we needmore. You know, blood is
perishable, so we need to continueto do this and continue to have this
drive and others, you know,to help people in need, to help
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people. Every two seconds somebody inthe US needs blood and we're collecting for
hospital partners and patience. Yes,so important. Then well, thank you
so much for letting, you know, for bringing this to our attention,
and for coming on the show today, and also too, I love that
there's so many locations to choose from, so it's spread all across the city,
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in suburbs of Chicago, so Ireally even Indiana. So I really
think that this is super accessible forso many of us. And I think
it's a great you know, agreat cause and very very important to help
support if you can, you knowwhat I mean. Yeah, and you
even get the tenth anniversary ABC sevenChicago. iHeartMedia T shirt. Oh my
gosh, it's awesome. I wantone of those. That's cool. So
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cool. Well, thank you Joyfor being here with us today. We
appreciate it. Thank you, Thankyou. Paulina two twenty four is off
to an awesome start. In oneof the main reasons why her smile is
low in she brings all the lightinto a dark room. It is the
going Oh okay. It is theone and only from the Whitney Rentls Show.
Whitney Reynolds is back twenty twenty four. We are back, I know,
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seriously, we are really kicking thingsoff this month. I mean back
to back Whitney's Women, and youknow I say this every time. We
love our men, and today wehave a woman and a man, so
we are really doing it all onWhitney's Women. We have Harry Moon and
we also have the World Literacy Foundationthat Harry Moon is supporting. We have
Megan and Steve. Welcome to theshow. Hello, I know, I'm
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so glad you guys are here becausewe are kicking off the year and it
is so important when we think aboutour goals and what we're doing, and
reading really impacts so many people.Steve, do you want to tell us
a little bit about Harry Moon?Sure? Sure, so. Harry Moon
is a book series that we createdwith twenty one total books in the series.
It's written for the seven to twelveyear old reader. And what's different
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about Harry Moon compared to other bookswritten for that age is that we focus
on themes for each of our books. So each book has a theme anti
bullying, self acceptance, responsibility,and the goal is to get kids reading
again, but when they're reading,to teach them life lessons that are embedded
in our books. So it's almostlike they're reading a great, fun,
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engaging story, but at the sametime, they're learning lessons about issues that
affect them at that age between sevenand twelve. You know, you just
spurred this thought because as a momof seven year old twins, I think
about this. We live in sucha society of like iPads or these you
know, screen times. Let's takethat back. It's screen time. It
communing time to screen and I thinkit's so cool with what you said about
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actually reading and getting them in abook like we used to with the real
pages, smelling the paper, butthen there's a deeper meaning and I love
that. And Megan, I wantto bring you into the conversation with this
because there are so many things thatkids are taking away from it. Yeah,
no, for sure. You know, there's the thing I like most
about Hary Moon is the touch ofmagic that it is. So it's not
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only these life lessons, but youknow, it could relate to the kids
on a more you know, inspirationallevel, where they can you know,
imaginate and be inspired to do biggerand better things. And you're the World
Literacy Foundations Liaison, yes or HarryMoon. Yes. And so the book
series, not only are you helpingkids get back into reading and giving these
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themes, but you're also giving backin a big way. Tell us about
that. Yeah, you know,so the were literacy program with Harry Moon.
The whole point is to allow kidsall around the world, no matter
where they come from, to beable to read a book and to be
able to learn how to write,imagine all that kind of good stuff.
And what we're doing is we're givingthese kids just not only any literature,
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but Harry Moon specifically. So oneof the greatest projects we worked on recently,
if we want to talk about that, yeah, tell us about it
was in twenty twenty one. Weworked with a WLP. We call it
right for suret we can Oh YeahFoundation Foundation program. So we worked with
them to give access to kids inAfrica all these books. And you know,
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when you think of getting kids accessto books, you think paper,
you know, that's usually what wethink, but that's not really always accessible
to everyone, right, So theyactually created a e book so it's not
really ebook, but it's a ebookthat's powered via solar power. And we
made nine of our books available,our best selling books available to them through
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that, and we were able tospread this, you know, across Oh
that is wonderful. I love that. Super inclusive and that's going back to
some of those things. You know, bullying is such a hot topic,
especially when you have kids that aregrowing up and you hope your kids aren't
the bully. You hope they aren'tbeing bullied. Tell us about how you
give that messaging out in your book. Sure, So the whole concept started
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when we had a almost like afocus group. The series was in the
creation stage back in twenty fourteen andour goal was to not just be a
diary of a wimpy kid or Goosebumpsor some other book that's available, you
know, to kids this age.So we put together a focus group of
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teachers and principles and educators and anyoneinvolved in the literacy side of a child's
development, and we said, whatare you looking for in a children's book
series written for the seven to twelveyear old reader? And unequivocally they all
said, an engaging book that hasa lot of different like volumes, not
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a whords, is prolific, andthat has a theme or a message so
that you know, we can wecan teach it in the schools, you
know, and certainly bullying at thetime, you know, bully's always been
an issue, but at the timeit was just one of our other ideas.
You know, we felt that,you know that responsibility and friendship,
these are all things that are important. But you know, over the last
six seven, eight years, bullyinghas become really in the forefront and is
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a major problem in some schools andfor kids that age. So we made
our main character, Harry Moon,be sort of a geeky you know,
I don't know how everyone here wasin eighth grade. But I was a
complete geek, and so the geeks, the geeks I like them, still,
right, so he probably won't,you know. Yeah, So we
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made Harry a you know, aneighth grade geek who you know, has
has magic that goes beyond doing tricksare the tricks. It's sort of deep
magic and and but he can onlyuse his magic for good. And so
he exists in a world where,you know, the evil mayor has taken
over his town in in you know, upstate Massachusetts. And the whole story
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arc for the entire series is himversus the evil mayor, but fighting for
good. You know what, thewhole if you could conjugate it all down,
the idea behind it is being ahero in your own community. Wow,
as a seven to twelve year old. And that's the goal that we
go for, is to get thesekids understand that whatever they do in their
in their community, no matter howsmall that act is, it's important.
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Oh. I love that. Andthe World Literacy Foundation, it doesn't stop
with working with them, like youwere mentioning going into schools like you are
very big about spreading the message likeyou do literacy programs within schools. And
then you also have made an audiobookout of this. We have an audio
play. Actually, actually, wellwe've done book. I don't even know
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what's until I heard that it cameout right. So an audiobook is simply
an author or a narrator reading thebook, no sound effects, nothing.
An audio play is actually characters thatwe've assigned or chosen to play parts.
It's almost like if it could beon stage, it would be a play
or you know. So that's reallyfun. So our work with the World
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Literacy Foundation, yes, goes beyondthe sub Saharan book a program that Megan
talked about. What we do withthem is that we we help them put
books in kids' hands all around theworld. And you know, and that's
just not the world itself, it'sthe United States as well. You know.
We work with them in programs inDetroit and Miami and all the rest.
And the goal is is to raisemoney to get our books into the
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hands of underprivileged kids who really don'thave access to reading material, you know.
So that's that's the board. Andthen of course you know, we
do programs where any any order youbuy off our website, that is that
you use the discount code codew lfWorld Literacy Foundation, right, Okay,
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in the discount code section, wewill give you twenty five percent off that
order and take that twenty five percentand we will give it to to World
Literacy Foundation programming. What up?I love that? Okay, Megan,
tell us where this actually can allbe. You said, the webs I
give back to the World Literacy Foundation. What is the website so people can
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get involved? Well, we justwe just updated. It's Harry Moon Harrymon
dot com. Okay. You canfind it on a link there and there
is just a little blurb about thefoundation and our you know, connection and
responsibility with them, and then ifyou go to the end, there is
a section where you could donate.And then also, like we said,
if you buy any books and anythinglike that, twenty five percent goes to
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this foundation. And you know,I think it just really teaches these kids
a good lesson about it's not justabout reading, it's about giving back and
there's so much more to this HarryMoon community. Yes, And one thing
I've loved personally with my kid Iwas reading it is there is so many
of them. Like it's not justlike you read one and you're done.
You can actually keep going. Andit's kept my kids, especially my son,
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who's very hard to get in frontof a book. He's loving it.
He is wanting to just go throughbook after book, and so that's
so cool. Yeah, it is, it is, you know, book
reading. Reading is therapeutic. Iyou know, I was a troubled reader
myself, and so I never reallyread much when I was a kid,
and I didn't know it. I'myou know, I'm an ex gener and
we you know, you could bemildly dyslexic as an ex gener and no
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one would ever know. You know, it's only the it's only the next
generation of millennials that we started lookingat saying, hey, you have a
reading issue. You're reading below grade. And so what's great about the Harry
Moon books is that, you know, they're written for grade level readers,
but they're also the way we writethem, the font we use, the
difference between the paper and the ink, and then the way we organize the
book is very conducive to readers whoare either below grade or have have reading
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issues like dyslexia, you know,and like I read it. I read
it because sometimes I wake up withmild anxiety and I start reading and reading
reading, will you know, willtake away anxiety. It's oddest thing.
And I know you've you've you know, Megan, you've had that same issue
where you wake up and you're,you know, you're freaking out about the
day. You have the Sunday scaries, you know, and then you pick
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up a book at three in themorning and you could be anything, and
then you start reading and it's aoh, I love that too. We're
touching on so many great things.What a great kickoff to the year.
I mean, this is wonderful.Guys, thank you so much for coming
on and telling us give us thatwebsite one more time where people can get
involved. And the code were WorldLiteracy Foundation, Harrymoon dot org yep or
Harry Moon dot com. That's thechange we made is we secured both awesome
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because we want to make sure thatno matter what you put in dot com
dot org, it always reaches us. Yeah, and the code is World
Literacy Foundation is w l F.And there's a discount code section in our
in our shopping cart and it'll automaticallya World Literacy Foundation. I love it.
Thank you both so much for comingon. Thank you. I'm picturing
it now, It's like this isthe start of a big, big thing,
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Harry Moon, like an amusement park, a absolutely costume. I just
want to be one of those voicesin their next audio play. I could
be like the fun Onto that wasit. I already got the top.
I just switched into I know,I know, Well, thank you for
coming in, Whitney. Yes,what is coming up for you? You
(26:03):
know? It is a new year, and I love it. Whenever I
always say a new me, butactually it's the same Whitney. But here's
what happened. At the end ofthe year. I took two weeks off
and I had time because it hadbeen such a fast year, amazing year
for the show. We won moreawards, we grew our footprint. However,
that's not why we're in this.I thought to myself, how do
we grow the mission? How dowe reach more viewers? So taking a
(26:26):
step back, letting my brain calmdown was the most amazing thing, because
guys, twenty twenty four is here, and what I'm envisioning is so much
larger than we could ever stepped into. It's really being that voice of hope
for the nation. So coming upthis spring, you will see us on
all the streaming. We will bestreaming as much as you can, so
(26:47):
we want you to be able tostream us. And we launch our new
season April fourth, and we reallywant to be that voice of hope for
the nation, so we want tohear your story. We're scouting new stories,
so go to Whitney Reynolds dot com. Thank you so much for tuning
in, and thank you thank youfor always supporting and listening to the Weekly
Show here on iHeartRadio. You canalways find this episode or a previous episode
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that you missed on our free iHeartapp. Just simply search for the Weekly
Show. And if you know somebodywho'd be a great fit for the show
as well, please reach out tome at Paulina at iHeartMedia dot com and
I'll try my best to set upa time for you to get on the
show. Thank you so much,we appreciate you. Stay safe, Chicago.
We'll talk to you again next weekend.
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