Payton's Lemonade Stand

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Eight oh five on a Friday, and a happy Friday
to year on the heels of wonderful charity work being
done by part for seniors. We pivot over to another
unmitigated success story and what an inspiration this is to everyone.
Welcome back to the fifty five Krsey Morning Show. Jess Ober,
mother of Peyton, who created and founded at the age

(00:30):
of six, the Peyton's Lemonade Stand. We're coming up on
the date. Welcome back, Jess. It's always a pleasure talking
with you.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Thank you so much. Brian, it's always great to chat
with you.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Well, the history of this thing is just amazing when
I look year after year and this is the eighth
annual Peyton's Lemonade Stand. The money, uh, you raise the money,
the sale of the lemonade goes to help children in need.
And it started out with your daughter, who was six,
decided she wanted to set up a lemonade stand back
in twenty eighteen the sole purpose of using all of

(01:01):
the money to buy new toys for patients at Cincinnati
Children's Hospital. Apparently she got a teddy bear when she
was there, and she so thoroughly appreciated that gesture and
loved it so much that she knew other children would
benefit from the same kind of thing. So she wanted
to take some steps and raise some money to that effort.
And what a glorious thing. And it's blown up since then.

(01:21):
Just oh, my word, that's a good word.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yes, it's just it's grown so much. It's been incredible
to see the growth for these past eight years.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
And it's not too late. My listeners can help out
on this. Get a load of these figures. The first
one she did all by herself. She raised seven hundred
and sixty eight bucks, which is really impressive considering it's
one girl with a lemonade. Stand fast forward neighborhood. Well
there you see doubling down, and it's like people want

(01:56):
to give to I mean, I think people like to
buy from children's lemonades things, period, end of story. These
are young entrepreneurs. They're taking the effort, they're sitting out
in the sun, they're doing something that's productive and making
the money. So we're all gravitating toward that. But when
you see a young person that is raising money for charity.
You're like, oh my god, that's such a beautiful thing. Here,
let me buy some.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
Here's the kicker, Brian. She's never charged a dime for
her lemonade. It's always been free.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
All donations. Oh that's so beautiful. All right, let's walk
through the years so again. Seven sixty eight, year one,
twenty nineteen, seven thousand dollars, twenty twenty. Now that was
when she was still by herself. Then you started adding others.

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Others were like, Hey, can I get involved with this?
Can I open my own Peyton's Lemonade stand? So you
created Peyton's Pals. You got eight additional lemonade stands in
twenty twenty and so for the third annual lemonade stand
you raised thirty five thousand dollars. Sit tight, folks, because
it only gets better from there. So you saw how
great this thing's grow, and you formed a five O

(03:03):
one C three nonprofit. In twenty twenty one, fourth annual event,
you had over one hundred young people doing thirty lemon stands,
sixty thousand dollars. Fast forward to twenty twenty two, you're
up to fifty stands. You got two hundred children and
a lot of community assistants, eighty five thousand dollars raised,
twenty twenty three one hundred thousand dollars and folks, this

(03:28):
is contributions, donations in one single day. And then last
year I had and last year I had you on
the program, and I don't know what I predicted that
you would raise, but you ultimately had ninety stands. Kentucky's involved,
Indiana's involved, as well as Ohio where it started. You
had much more people involved. One hundred and twenty five
thousand dollars raised in only three hours. That is just fantastic.

(03:52):
I made a trip down to Loveland. There was a
store of Loveland. They had a elevenade stand and I
made a contribution down there and got myself a glass
of elemonade. So it's just great. So this year, what's
the day? How can people get involved? And you also
you're also teaching children a lot about philanthropy, so it's
not just getting involved for one day. You're trying to
use this as a learning experience.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Jess Oh, for sure.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
That's been the beauty and it is just to see
all of the kids who are now involved. Hundreds of
kids will be out tomorrow hosting their lemonade stands. And
I always tell people, you know, your visit might be
the spark that ignites, you know, a lifelong passion of

(04:40):
giving back for these kids. So I really encourage people
to visit our website to see the map where all
one hundred and four lemonade stands will be tomorrow, everywhere
there in.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
All parts p A Y t o NS Peyton's Lemonade
stand dot org.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
Yeah, and if you go to get involved, visit a stand,
you'll see a map a lemons. If you can click
on a lemon or you can just scroll right below
that map you'll see all of the locations listed. And
while this is a lot of kids in their driveways hosting,
it's also a lot of businesses this year, more this

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year than any other year. So we have like Buskin Bakery,
Big B Coffee, Fisher Homes is hosting at five of
their model homes, tons of local boutiques like Shop Sharbond
and Metallic Draft and LULUs, There's it's just the community

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buy in this year is absolutely incredible.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
I'm so pleased to see that.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
Speaking of Buskin, they are also doing it gives back
with their famous smiley iced cookie a portion of all
proceeds from those cookies. This week and through tomorrow, we'll
go back to Peyton's Lemonade stand.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
Wow, and I'm looking at the map. Oh my word.
Turn around and you'll be staring at yet another Peyton's
Lemonade stands. So feel free to donate at all the locations.
It's going to take you all day to do it.
That's a beautiful site for behold.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
That's what we laugh about is somebody will say, well,
I'm going to go to this stand, and then when
they get to that stand, they're like, well, heck, I
pay three on my way here.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yeah, well look at you. You've gone nationwide too.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
It's not just the Greater Cincinni area, which does include
northern Kentucky and Indiana stands. You got one in Lakeside, Ohio.
You got one in Cambridge, Ohio, and oh look, there's
one in Atlanta, Georgia, and one in Carl's Bad, New Mexico.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
Words gotten out?

Speaker 3 (07:04):
Is that cool?

Speaker 2 (07:05):
You're gonna be nationwide? I mean completely nationwide. I figured
Jess over next year I talk to you, there's gonna
be lemonade stands from New York to California.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
Wouldn't that be cool?

Speaker 1 (07:15):
Oh what's Peyton say about this?

Speaker 2 (07:17):
She does she have a full appreciation of what she
was able to accomplish by starting this out eight years ago.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
You know, I think it's the older she gets and
the more we we do a lot of like presentations
in that throughout the years, the more she tells her
story and the more you know, feedback she gets. I
think it's really starting to click for her. You know,
she's starting to understand the impact that just one person

(07:46):
can make. Yeah, and so that motivates her to keep
doing it well.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
And you know what, I am glad you phrased it
that way, because you know, I tend to I'll tend
to be a check writer. I'm happy to charities, but
I'm not the guy that's going to stand up and say, hey,
I got an idea, and you know, let's do this.
And then because I don't know anything about accomplishing whatever
idea I could possibly come up with. I remember a

(08:11):
gentleman that you used to have on the program that
started a marathon to help with Honor Flight tri State.
One guy, no connection with the military, but he loved
the organization. But if you started and you and you
hold your hand up and say I'm going to be
the person that's going to coordinate this or start it off.
You'd be amazed how many people will rise up and
embrace the concept and want to help you out. Clearly,

(08:34):
a six year old Peyton did not have any concept
that she would end up with one hundred plus different
stands and probably thousand people plus out there helping her
out to accomplish this goal.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
Well, and that's just been what's so cool about this
is just how organically it has grown. And we say that,
you know, she knew something that we didn't. You know,
she had the vision and to be honest, when she
was six and hosting a lemonade stand in her driveway,
like I really thought like this was just going to

(09:09):
be in one time, right right, But she was adamant,
I mean adamant that it become an annual summer tradition.
And you know, had she not been that way, we
wouldn't be where we are now, because, like I said,
we were fine what she is doing it once?

Speaker 1 (09:29):
All right, Mom, Mom, Jess.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
It didn't take you prompting her or inspiring her to
continue to do this and hey, you need to do
this next year.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
That was her idea.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
Okay, so I'll admit to you and everybody listening. But
I told my husband after that first stand and she talked,
she was already talking about the following summer.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
I said, just don't mention it and maybe she'll forget.

Speaker 5 (09:55):
So, I mean, super selfish on my part. But are
you really We're not We're not expecting this, No you are.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
It has turned out you do? You mentioned you do
seminars and presentations, so you're you're really working on this
Peyton's Lemonade stand thing throughout the year.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
Then, oh, well, it is my full time job. I
mean it is an actual five oh one c three.
We have given out Brian over five million dollars in
both in kind donations and monetary donations oh much to

(10:35):
local organizations who whose mission aligns with ours, you know,
who are serving kids facing hardships. So it's it's really
wild to see what one little lemonade stand hosted by
a six year old girl has turned into.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
It is absolutely stunning, and listeners, I just do yourself
a favor and get inspired and enlightened and maybe help
participate and help out even if you can't visit a
Lemonade stand tomorrow, even though there's one literally right next
to you. There's a donate button on the website. You
can help them out achieve their goal from the comfort

(11:13):
of your own home. But Peyton's lemonadestand dot org. But
when you're there, click on the map and just look
at that and just remember this all started with a
six year old girl. Just I love the story. I
really do. Jesse I started off mentioning, you know, to
get toys for children that are in the hospital. You
obviously have branched out. You mentioned providing. You distributed five

(11:36):
million dollars in donations to various organizations. What are the
some of the other organizations or types of organizations that
some of these.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
Funds go to.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
Well, well, you work with a lot of local organizations.
I like to help, like the smaller ones. I feel
like our impact is a lot bigger. There so places
like upspring that serves kids experiencing homelessness, or a Hope's
Closet who helps kids. You know in the foster care system.

(12:07):
We work a lot with CPS, and a lot of
those schools within CPS are very underfunded, and so we've
been you know, we send kids on memorable field trips.
We work with Cincinnati Recreation Commission and we provide brand
new swimsuits and towels and goggles for kids who show

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up through their pools who don't have you know, we
don't have a suit to go swim with their friends.
And when we do help children, and we do a
lot for Ronald McDonald House. Last year we helped over
forty different organizations, and so you're right, it has branched
out beyond the walls of children simply because the need

(12:50):
is just so great everywhere, and so we've been really
honored to be able to help so many local kids
and families and organizations here.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
Here, locally beautiful.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Everything about this is just wonderful. Peyton's Lemonade stand dot
or get involved, help out anyway. You can't enjoy a
glass of lemonade and make a nice contribution be doing
Society of Favor. Well, I have nothing but great words
for you, the organization for what Peyton started so many
years ago, and the fact that you've turned this into
this amazing successful charity. And let's see, should we predict

(13:30):
how much money you're gonna take in this year, Jess.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
This year is bananas it's big. The weather like closs
my fingers. I think it's gonna it's gonna be hot,
but I think it's gonna be dry, and I don't know.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
Brian Loots goes for business all right three hours last
year with ninety lemonade stands one hundred and twenty five grand,
I'm gonna go two hundred. I'm going two hundred thousand
this year.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
I said it. I hope I'm right.

Speaker 4 (14:02):
Your listeners better show up.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
I hope I'm right.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
Or if I'm wrong, I hope it's because I undercount
it and you get more than two hundred.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
It's easy to do. Folks.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Buy some lemonade, drop a twenty dollars bill or something
in the donation jar, and let's help them achieve the goal. Regardless.
It will go to worthy causes. Just over, God, bless you,
God bless Peyton, and keep up the great work. You
and I will talk again next year or maybe after
the lemonade stand tomorrow is all done and over with,
and you can report on how much money you pulled in.

Speaker 5 (14:32):
We'd love that.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
Please do it. Just over, good luck, have a great weekend.
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