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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Welcome to Georgia Focus. I'm John Clark on the Georgia
News Network. It's Girl Scout Cookie Time. When you purchase
a box of Girl Scout cookies, you're creating opportunities for
Girl Scouts to learn, grow and thrive, from learning how
to interact with customers to creating budgets and taking orders.
This program teaches Girl Scouts in valuable skills that they
need to know and succeed throughout their lives. Here to
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talk about this and other things that Girl Scouts are
doing is the CEO, Ji Farrell and Girl Scout Brooklyn
Baker from Newnan. Well, it's Girl Scout Cookie Time. Ji,
Welcome to the Girl Scouts. This is your first used
to be in the six months right.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Six months as a CEO, but lifetime as a Girl's Scout.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Yes, how was a Girl Scout too?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
And you show me a picture? You have a picture.
Your mother was your Scout?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Whil I am lither was my Girl Scout co Truth
leader in Atlanta, Georgia Troop eight eight one at Landsay
Street Baptist Church in nineteen ninety one.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Oh man, that's how do they find you?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
They must know some aliens or something, because I have
no no I was recruited by an agency for the role. Actually,
I was the chief commercial and revenue officer at the
busy's airport in the Planet aka Heartsville, Jackson, and I
got a phone call from an agency that said, we're
looking for a leader, and I'll be very clear, just
much like how Brooklyn just asked me, what does nonprofit mean?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I had no idea what that.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Meant when I took the role. But what I did
know is that I have a culture for philanthropy and
I am a sister to every Girl Scout, So having
an opportunity to lead the organization, I don't think I
could have dreamed this.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I know that's great because you really she really does
have a picture on her phone when she was a
Girl Scouter. Her mother is her Scout master. It's great.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
A fun part is that picture was easy to find
because it's actually in my mom's home office, so I'd
have to go through books or anything.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
So that's how important Girl Scouts is to us.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Brooklyn, your girls shouting? Now? How are you right now?
What troop are you with?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
I'm a troupe eighteen years or for my mom's actually
my leaders.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Oh she's here too, yes she is. We have a
whole crowd of people here. So well, thank y'all for
coming in today. Thank y'all, and thank you for the cookies.
I love these cookies.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Of course you should love them and everyone else should
love them too, shameless plug.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I just love the cookies.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Well, let's talk about that first. And it's cookie time now.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
It is one cookie season. So here's what's really great
about cookies. And most people don't know this, but cookies
were activated to help support and fund the mission because
at its inception of Girl Scouts, women didn't have bank accounts.
So cookies for over a century have been funding the mission.
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But how do we the community and the village for
Brooklyn provide her with the resources she needs? And I
doubt we can do that on a single box of cookies,
So we'll talk about how that works. But cookies have
been around a long time to help fund the mission
to build girls of courage, confidence and character.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
And the cookies are available now, right now, they are
you call the Girls Scouts to get cookies or what
do you do?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Do you wait?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
So we have a very phased approach with cookies. So
we have an independent selling opportunity. So right now, Brooklyn
can give her URL for Digital Cookie, which is the
online way for you to be able to have cookies.
You can either meet with her or you can have
them digitally drop shipped. Then there is what we call
the booth season, which is what's most familiar for everyone,
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and that'll be coming up around February fourteenth or so.
And during booth season's where you can go to your
local big box retaeillers, mom and pop stores, or small
franchises and they have the cookies set up there. So
that's those two options. So if you're not sure that,
go find Brooklyn or your local Girl Scout. But effective
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February twenty first, you can go to show Me Thecookies
dot Com and it will locate you with one of
the girls in your neighborhood so you can go see
them and buy cookies.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Okay, So Brooklyn, what's your plan this year for cookies
to get them out?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Well, for this year, we're trying to sell to family members,
friends as well. We hope to maybe go to some
stores like Walmart, Target, go out in front and sell
cookies there. Oh, so the show Me Thecookies dot Com definitely,
if you're wanting to buy cookies, you should go to
that website to meet with a local Girl Scout.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
So the cookies, the cookies are such a there's more
to just selling the cookies than selling the cookies. It's
a whole, it's explained.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
It's a network. It is such a network.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
So I'll start off by people know Girl Scouts because
of our cookies, and I think that is in a
very delightful right to know us. But the cookies are
just a program within a very multiverse, multi fa program
we have. Cookies is a part of our entrepreneurship program.
So our young ladies are learning about how to do
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their personal pitch, how to speak up and advocate for themselves,
sales strategy, marketing strategy, inventory control process, and transactions. They're
learning all of that simply through cookies. But cookies helps
also fund her other projects, so she can earn what
we call cookie dough to be able to go to camp,
take trips, get premium items and rewards. So it's more
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to it than just buying a cookie. When you're supporting
Brooklyn or any other Girl Scout, by buying one box
of cookie, that cookie crumbles on being able to support
her operationally, but then also all her mission driven work too.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Right, So it teaches them as they go how to
sell and how to how to be a person.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Everything, everything, everything about Girl Scouts is very intentional. There
is a true curriculum behind it all. Albeit we are
youth development, we love our girls who want them to
be their best sells.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
We want to equip and resource and train them.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
So even having Brooklyn come from Miss Media and being
a part of this program is an exposure opportunity, just
like the cookies would be for her as well. It's
how do you what's your sales pitch? How do you
speak up for yourself? How do you advocate for one?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
We teach our girls that and you you hear in
Atlanta you deal with just one cookie maker.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yes, So what people don't realize is that we license
the cookies from the Federated Model.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
But there are two bakeries.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
The bakery that we use this year is called Liddy
Brown and Breakers, and they're located out of Kentucky. So
when the cookies are baked, we get a pre order,
right pre order of sorts. Once we know kind of
what the market's going to be able to handle. They
start to produce those cookies. Believe it or not, they
are not cookies being baked at my office because we're.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Not keyboard elms.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
No everybody thinks cookies are there. No, I only have
a very small cookie closet. But once the cookies are
being prepare it base off of the forecast. They're then
deployed to what we call cookie cupboards, and those are
the locations that house and pete the cookies. One thing
I didn't mention is we have over thirty five thousand
members of Girl Scouts, not just in the metro Atlanta
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area five counties, but in thirty other counties in Georgia,
so thirty five total. So what that means is we
don't want to inconvence them, so we drop the cookies
at areas that are closest to them for them to
then be able to pick up and drop off and
deliver to you.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
And then the cookies now down is South Georgia, for example,
in Dawson, Georgia. What do you do down there if
you want.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Some cookies if they're inside of our inn catchment, Either
one you're a friend or family member of a person
like Brooklyn, or you go to show me thecookies dot
com and you can locate someone within your kind of
radius of where you're willing to travel, and you can
get cookies that way.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Okay, that's right. I want to make because I know
this show is all over Georgia, and I want to
make sure they get the cookies too.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Just absolutely.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I want to make mention that we do have an
other sister council. It's called the Historic Georgia Council. It
is where we call Mother low Juliet Gordon Lowe was
born and lived in Savannah, Georgia, so our Historic Council
is there.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
They're a smaller council than we are.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
However, don't forget you can buy cookies from those amazing
young women too.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Now in Savannah, for example, would they use the same
same person, same company that you know, so they may
use so many.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Here's what's great. They're over one hundred and eleven councils
throughout the United States and Girls Scouts each of us
are our own, independently operating five O one c threes.
So we use the national branding, national messaging from what
we call GSUSA, which is the Federated model, but each
of our particular councils operate as its own business.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Okay, So okay, so that's what Brooklyn is being. Selling
cookies is not your goal ultimately, But what else to do?
What else do you do in Girl Scouts? And they
do many more things besides cookies.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
I make so many new friends and Girl Scouts. I
love going camping as well. We learned so many life skills.
Camping make so many connections that elastics a lifetime as
well as being in this media with the opportunities I
get to have to even talk to you guys here today.
Girl Scouts provide so many opportunities for young girls to
really expand on whatever they want to do.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
So what do you want to do eventually?
Speaker 4 (09:24):
I want to be an antistysiologist when I get older,
so maybe a far cry from being on.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yeah right, yeah, Still, these these things they teach you
now in Scout and Girl Scouts, they they still are
things that you'll use as an anestesiologist.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Of course, buying Girl Scout cookies from your local Girl
Scouts supports the new generation of young entrepreneurs and it
really sets up for the future for all of us.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Because they're girls that are anesthesiologists. They're CEOs, they're they're
they're do everything.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
There, they're baker, they decide to be moms and lead
their households.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
It just really depends.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
So when you talk about that diversity of the Girl
Scout programming, we do have the entrepreneurial vertical, which is
the Cookie program, But outside of that, we have our
leadership vertical, of which is our Gold Award, which is
a higher ward that our girls earn because they've been
able to master a particular skill or they've ideated and
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come up with their own solution to a problem. We
also have our outdoor Stewardship, the Great Atlanta Council. We
have about fifteen hundred acres of property that we have
across three different campsites, one in Metro Atlanta, one in
our Muci, Georgia, another one in Meriweather. That's where the
girls go camp. We have high ropes, courses, canoes, legs.
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We also have forty eight horses, depending upon what you want,
so we unplug them from all of their devices and
put them outdoors. But then we also have what I
would consider to be the mental health and the wellness component,
So what does that look like for them? And we
do really heavily tether our outdoor. But then we also
have the STEM component, which is really where that antithesiologist
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comes as. As a matter of fact, we just had
our stemxfol where we had about two thousand girls come
and they learned, and we know what was great. They
were learning not just about STEM or steam oriented careers.
They were learning about how to pet in their idea,
how to protect their intellectual property. So it's so much
more than just a couple of crafts. We are truly
building the next level of leadership and we need people
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support for that.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Yes, sure you do, but you know you also at
the same time, you still have the fun. You know,
you have fun with camps and going out and doing
things and canoeing and riding horsebacks and things like that.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Can you want to know a secret? I love my job.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I bet you do.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
I do, and I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I don't know if you can tell just based off
of what I'm doing. I'll say this, I will always
love where I.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Came from from the airport to television.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
But this work in this season where I am I'm
exactly where I'm supposed to be, and when I see
the mission in motion, when I'm able to touch and
talk to a girl like Brooklyn and deal with her
mom and understand that we're.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
A part of her village.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
It only reinforces how important this work is. Yes, planes
are important, but I would argue that the next level
of leadership of girls is even more important than that.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
We were talking earlier today about girls or kids in general,
how we didn't understand how they did it, and now
the girls cats they can do it now where those
who are I understand how these kids do it.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
The first of all, they have better elevator pictures than
some of the professionals that are applying to work for me.
They know, they're learning who they are, They're discovering things
about themselves that I wasn't even thinking about at that time.
But then they're so focused, Like she's in the ninth
grade and she's like, Okay, how can I become a
better person?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
How can I do this? Hey?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
How can I get exposure to internships? I was not
thinking about internships in high school. I was still playing
basketball and figuring out what I was going to do
with my hair and my male color.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
I wasn't concerned with those things.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
And that goes back to the importance of the core programming.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
But then how do we keep this relevant?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
How do we continue to attract the next level of
girls who really want to be a part of this.
It didn't have to be Girl Scouts, or it should
be girl Scouts. And you can be a girl Scout
and Chileader Girl Scout and soccer Girl Scout and antesthesiologists
if that's what you want.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
You don't have to choose. You can do them both.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
That's true. Is that true, Brooklyn? Do you do that?
When did you start in Girl Scouts?
Speaker 4 (13:43):
I started Girl Scouts about nine years ago, when I
was thinking first grade or like second year of kindergarten.
But I've always loved Girl Scouts since I started.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
And how long can you be in it?
Speaker 4 (13:54):
You can be in Girl Scouts till you're at the
end of ambassador. But honestly, once you're a Girl Scout,
you're a Girl Scout.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Well that's right, that's right, that's right. Girl Scouts for
a lot. But yeah, I was a boy Scout alout.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
I bet you can build a bench, can't.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
We love? We love Scouts of America. They're they're a
great peer and partner.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Absolutely, I think all Scouting is wonderful. I think it
really is wonderful. Kid. I would, I know, I could,
I don't. I can't imagine not being in Scouts.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Most of the girls are coming with a need for something,
whether it's a sense of community, establishing who they are
as their sense of self, figuring out what they want
to be, who they want to be, and then also mentorship.
So we do offer that they are able to now
be in spaces where they need a CEO. I was
just telling Brooklyn, I have no idea who the CEO
was in nineteen ninety one, but here she has a
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direct relationship with that. So should she decides she doesn't
want to be the antishusiologist, but be the chief antiseusiologists
and CEO at the airport or wherever she's gonna go,
she could do that. She could do that in the hospital,
she could do there, or she wants. But it's our
job to equip her with that. And I think that's
where it comes down to the responsibility of the work.
And I love my team, but we can't do it alone.
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We need supporters. We need folks who want to expose
our girls, but we also need those who can think
big ahead enough to say, you know what, this is
my workforce. How do I make sure that she's going
to be ready for whatever her next is?
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Do you need more people to be mothers who Scout
mothers as.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
So when we start so co truth leader.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
So the way that the Scouts has broken up into
membership is we have girl members and then we have
adult leaders. And this is where I'm going to challenge you,
mister Clark. We need men that are man enough to
be Girl Scout supporters too. We cannot do this by ourselves.
So that goes back to this idea of what does
volunteer and service look like. Yes, can you be a
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co troop leader absolutely, whether it's your child, your niece
or nephew, you can do that. Do you want to
be a volunteer for an event? Well, we have a
five K that comes up. Do you want to support
us with that event? Do you want to be a
part of the stem expo where you go and you
display your particular network, or maybe you have a really
healthy corporate network. Hey, you can't do it yourself with
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your corporation or your network. Or people want to supply
us and support us and resource us, you can do
that too. So when we talk about this idea of
a volunteer experience, I want us to look at it
more from a cultural philanthropy and not the time. But
what gift and treasure can you provide and resource to girls?
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Because it doesn't have to just be a troop leader.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Right, well, that's true, that's true. It doesn't really have
to be. No, like I'll get right now, you can
do anything with us in radio. We will do anything
for you, anything for you.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Is that on the record.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Anything we can to get your stuff out, get your
word out, and get everything about about you. Everything we
can do get you.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Well, miss the clock, I have that recorded on my phone.
Just hurts you too, But I have a couple of
things for you already.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
All right, No, anytime. I know radio always always is
helpful and things like that, and we will be definite
help out on this thing.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Thank you so much. We can't do what we do
without partners like you. So we're grateful that you let
us to come out now that the snow's gone, now
to come down and hang out with you for a bit.
But as we talk about what the girls need, we
need everyone, We need support and the village does not
look the.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Same it could be in any opportunity.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Again, we talk about internships that might be here, we
talk about volunteersm it may be buying a table to
an event, and it might just simply be buying one
box of Girl Scout pickies.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
We accept all love, so thank you.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
If someone wants to be involved as an adult leader,
they go on a website and there's a place that
can go and what I know, you have to do
background checks and everything.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Absolutely I do not play with my background chess.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
But no.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
You can go to Girls scoutsatl dot org and look
under a volunteer section and there are various listings of
how you can volunteer, and it's joining membership. A membership
also can be a lifetime membership is four hundred dollars
a year. Once you pay it one time, you're a
life member. But there are so many different ways. Again,
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our girls want to be whoever, and half of them
are going to have careers that I don't even know
what they are yet. If someone had have told me
about a content creator ten years ago, I would have
asked what that meant. So again, no gift, no skill
is too niche or specialized. We have thirty five thousand
girls we're trying to support. And who knows who they are?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
It's true, that's true. Who knows who they are? The
strict's president, who knows.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Who knows? Who knows? Who knows?
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Brooklyn? Where do you do like in Girl Scouts? When
do you have meetings every month or something like that?
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Meetings every month?
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Are they? Where are they?
Speaker 3 (18:52):
What type?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
What's your meanings?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Like?
Speaker 4 (18:53):
We hold the meetings at our house and our pace,
but it can really be held anywhere in a public space.
If you want to go to your friend's house and
do a meeting there as well, feel free.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
How many people do you have in your troop?
Speaker 4 (19:05):
We have about six people in our troop, but we
used to have a lot.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Yeah, and you want more, you want to stan, the
more of the merrier. Yeah. Your troop is where they're located.
They're noon okay okay, so noon okay? All right? So
you people in noon go down there.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Or if you're looking for a Girl Scout experience, because
we do have what we have a troop led experience
where you do have a troop and as those are
usually folks you're familiar with in your neighborhood, then we
have partner led experiences where we may partner with the
YMCA or another nonprofit to offer Girl Scout programming.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
But then you have a Juliet experience.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Just say your kid is in untraditional school or they're
really really busy with other types of events and extracurriculars.
The Juliet program allows for them to self navigate while
still having a qualitative program. And I have team members
who help you figure out, like what does your curricuum
look look like? What are the opportunities you really need
to get The whole idea for me is not just
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about having a large council, because we have one that's
very impactful. It's the quality of the programming and how
are we fulfilling what those resources are and the girls
when what they need?
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Yeah, yeah, Well to talk more about the cookies, did
I see that the Girl Scouts are are two types
of cookies going away?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
So?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Well, one cookie is being Sunset and I'll tell you why.
So we just talked about supply chain, right, so the
some more, not the Samoa, the some more, the some more.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
I know people are getting the mixed up.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
The some more the somemor is being Sunset a lot
of it has to do with the band, but then
also we teach the girls that every single part of
the process the cookie has to be made, package, box,
all those things. The Somores is a little bit more
complicated and it's a little bit more difficult to fulfill,
so we're going to unset that, but we're really hopeful
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we might get a new flavor next year.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
So now you have this this some more, some more,
some more, some more.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
So it's the chocolate Graham and the and the.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Marshmallow that's available this year.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
That is available, but this is her final year or
so by every box.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
You can, every box you can buy it this year.
It doesn't matter, you're not gonna have it next year.
But what what are your types you have for sale now?
Speaker 2 (21:26):
So the most popular, the one that everybody loves, is
a truthful. The truthfoil is the one that we license
and do very very well. But she's very closely followed
by our fellow men. So we'll see which ones you have.
You have, yes, the truefoil is the Beyonce and is
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Katy Perry.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
How do you get.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Kat a wrecking?
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Okay, okay, okay, I have that ten minutes and the
tree fols.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Yes, this year.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
That means that you're going to love them so much
that you're going to be calling Brooklyn asking her to
fulfill your other cookie needs.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Okay, all right, so yeah, so so so finding more.
I just call brook Brooklyn and she takes care of everything.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
She'll take care of you.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
And if you don't, just say you don't want to
drive from your lovely home upward in north and don't
want to go to noonan, show me the cookie dot com.
Show me the cookies dot com because there is a
digital ship option, so you can ship and go drop ship.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
And you just you can just let them know what
you want, type you want.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
It is so easy.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
You're probably four clicks away from your favorite box of cookie.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yeah. Every year, I see them every year at my
Kroger and they're setting them every year. They're setting them,
and I've already bought them by then. I just give
them the money and say keep the cookies, you know.
But yeah, they're there every year, and I know they're
gonna be this year too. You'll be able to find
they sure will.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Now here's the other thing about the cookies.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Should you desire that you said, you know what I
have twelve more of my own already, I'm good.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Show me the cookies, yes, but we also have Military.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
For Smiles, which means you can buy cookies and then
just have them shipped to various military sites and bases,
so you don't have to eat them all yourself. I
know your Coleric Intake probably can't handle all those cookies,
but if you decide that you want to buy an
additional several boxes, you can send them over to the
military as well.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
That gives you out.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
It's fantastic that you do it. That's fantastic. So just
to do that, what do you do?
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Then again, when you go on there on the website,
it gives you the Military is for Smile link when
you see them. And then obviously after show me the cookies,
you'll be able to see the military sites as well.
So for those who are just like you know what,
I have more cookies than what I can eat, but
the military doesn't. So make sure if you want to
get more, you spend your dollars and send them off
to our guys and girls that are serving and protecting.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Us every day.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Absolutely, that's great, folks. Now, now you know if you've
got something you can do with these cookies. Do that?
Do that? Yeah? Yeah, well, good luck with selling the
Girl Scout cookies. I hope you sell. I hope those
some moores sell out this year.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
I hope so too.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
But for any reason, ship somebody say, you know what,
I was not on the planet and I couldn't find
a Girl Scout. Please consider following us on all of
our social media platforms and also visiting Girl Scout atl
dot org. There are so many ways to support our
movement and mission. Our girls need us more now than ever.
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The dream gap is growing. But I believe that every
year is a year of the girl and I think
people should think that too.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Yeah, yeah, Brooklyn anything And finally, you want to tell everybody, No,
I'm just.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
So thankful I get to be here today with all
you guys. And everyone should definitely buy Girl Scout cookies.
They're very good and they support all the Girl Scouts.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Good.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
She'll be back for her internship, come back, come back anytime, anytime,
seem to come back.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Thank you, John, Thank you very much for being here today.
It was a good good to meet you, and I'll
do more with you in the future. Thank you so much.
That's Girl Scouts CEO Ji Ferrell and Girl Scout Brooklyn
Baker of newonan to find out more about the Girl
Scouts of Atlanta and how you can get cookies visiting
them at girl Scouts at L dot org. For questions
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or comments on today's program, you can always email me
John Clark at Georgiannewsnetwork dot com. Thanks for listening. I'll
talk to you next week here on this local radio
station on Georgia Focus
Welcome to Georgia Focus. I'm John Clark on the Georgia
News Network. It's Girl Scout Cookie Time. When you purchase
a box of Girl Scout cookies, you're creating opportunities for
Girl Scouts to learn, grow and thrive, from learning how
to interact with customers to creating budgets and taking orders.
This program teaches Girl Scouts in valuable skills that they
need to know and succeed throughout their lives. Here to
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talk about this and other things that Girl Scouts are
doing is the CEO, Ji Farrell and Girl Scout Brooklyn
Baker from Newnan. Well, it's Girl Scout Cookie Time. Ji,
Welcome to the Girl Scouts. This is your first used
to be in the six months right.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Six months as a CEO, but lifetime as a Girl's Scout.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Yes, how was a Girl Scout too?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
And you show me a picture? You have a picture.
Your mother was your Scout?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Whil I am lither was my Girl Scout co Truth
leader in Atlanta, Georgia Troop eight eight one at Landsay
Street Baptist Church in nineteen ninety one.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Oh man, that's how do they find you?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
They must know some aliens or something, because I have
no no I was recruited by an agency for the role. Actually,
I was the chief commercial and revenue officer at the
busy's airport in the Planet aka Heartsville, Jackson, and I
got a phone call from an agency that said, we're
looking for a leader, and I'll be very clear, just
much like how Brooklyn just asked me, what does nonprofit mean?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I had no idea what that.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Meant when I took the role. But what I did
know is that I have a culture for philanthropy and
I am a sister to every Girl Scout, So having
an opportunity to lead the organization, I don't think I
could have dreamed this.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I know that's great because you really she really does
have a picture on her phone when she was a
Girl Scouter. Her mother is her Scout master. It's great.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
A fun part is that picture was easy to find
because it's actually in my mom's home office, so I'd
have to go through books or anything.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
So that's how important Girl Scouts is to us.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Brooklyn, your girls shouting? Now? How are you right now?
What troop are you with?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
I'm a troupe eighteen years or for my mom's actually
my leaders.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Oh she's here too, yes she is. We have a
whole crowd of people here. So well, thank y'all for
coming in today. Thank y'all, and thank you for the cookies.
I love these cookies.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Of course you should love them and everyone else should
love them too, shameless plug.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I just love the cookies.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Well, let's talk about that first. And it's cookie time now.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
It is one cookie season. So here's what's really great
about cookies. And most people don't know this, but cookies
were activated to help support and fund the mission because
at its inception of Girl Scouts, women didn't have bank accounts.
So cookies for over a century have been funding the mission.
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But how do we the community and the village for
Brooklyn provide her with the resources she needs? And I
doubt we can do that on a single box of cookies,
So we'll talk about how that works. But cookies have
been around a long time to help fund the mission
to build girls of courage, confidence and character.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
And the cookies are available now, right now, they are
you call the Girls Scouts to get cookies or what
do you do?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Do you wait?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
So we have a very phased approach with cookies. So
we have an independent selling opportunity. So right now, Brooklyn
can give her URL for Digital Cookie, which is the
online way for you to be able to have cookies.
You can either meet with her or you can have
them digitally drop shipped. Then there is what we call
the booth season, which is what's most familiar for everyone,
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and that'll be coming up around February fourteenth or so.
And during booth season's where you can go to your
local big box retaeillers, mom and pop stores, or small
franchises and they have the cookies set up there. So
that's those two options. So if you're not sure that,
go find Brooklyn or your local Girl Scout. But effective
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February twenty first, you can go to show Me Thecookies
dot Com and it will locate you with one of
the girls in your neighborhood so you can go see
them and buy cookies.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Okay, So Brooklyn, what's your plan this year for cookies
to get them out?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Well, for this year, we're trying to sell to family members,
friends as well. We hope to maybe go to some
stores like Walmart, Target, go out in front and sell
cookies there. Oh, so the show Me Thecookies dot Com definitely,
if you're wanting to buy cookies, you should go to
that website to meet with a local Girl Scout.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
So the cookies, the cookies are such a there's more
to just selling the cookies than selling the cookies. It's
a whole, it's explained.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
It's a network. It is such a network.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
So I'll start off by people know Girl Scouts because
of our cookies, and I think that is in a
very delightful right to know us. But the cookies are
just a program within a very multiverse, multi fa program
we have. Cookies is a part of our entrepreneurship program.
So our young ladies are learning about how to do
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their personal pitch, how to speak up and advocate for themselves,
sales strategy, marketing strategy, inventory control process, and transactions. They're
learning all of that simply through cookies. But cookies helps
also fund her other projects, so she can earn what
we call cookie dough to be able to go to camp,
take trips, get premium items and rewards. So it's more
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to it than just buying a cookie. When you're supporting
Brooklyn or any other Girl Scout, by buying one box
of cookie, that cookie crumbles on being able to support
her operationally, but then also all her mission driven work too.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Right, So it teaches them as they go how to
sell and how to how to be a person.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Everything, everything, everything about Girl Scouts is very intentional. There
is a true curriculum behind it all. Albeit we are
youth development, we love our girls who want them to
be their best sells.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
We want to equip and resource and train them.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
So even having Brooklyn come from Miss Media and being
a part of this program is an exposure opportunity, just
like the cookies would be for her as well. It's
how do you what's your sales pitch? How do you
speak up for yourself? How do you advocate for one?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
We teach our girls that and you you hear in
Atlanta you deal with just one cookie maker.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yes, So what people don't realize is that we license
the cookies from the Federated Model.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
But there are two bakeries.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
The bakery that we use this year is called Liddy
Brown and Breakers, and they're located out of Kentucky. So
when the cookies are baked, we get a pre order,
right pre order of sorts. Once we know kind of
what the market's going to be able to handle. They
start to produce those cookies. Believe it or not, they
are not cookies being baked at my office because we're.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Not keyboard elms.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
No everybody thinks cookies are there. No, I only have
a very small cookie closet. But once the cookies are
being prepare it base off of the forecast. They're then
deployed to what we call cookie cupboards, and those are
the locations that house and pete the cookies. One thing
I didn't mention is we have over thirty five thousand
members of Girl Scouts, not just in the metro Atlanta
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area five counties, but in thirty other counties in Georgia,
so thirty five total. So what that means is we
don't want to inconvence them, so we drop the cookies
at areas that are closest to them for them to
then be able to pick up and drop off and
deliver to you.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
And then the cookies now down is South Georgia, for example,
in Dawson, Georgia. What do you do down there if
you want.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Some cookies if they're inside of our inn catchment, Either
one you're a friend or family member of a person
like Brooklyn, or you go to show me thecookies dot
com and you can locate someone within your kind of
radius of where you're willing to travel, and you can
get cookies that way.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Okay, that's right. I want to make because I know
this show is all over Georgia, and I want to
make sure they get the cookies too.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Just absolutely.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I want to make mention that we do have an
other sister council. It's called the Historic Georgia Council. It
is where we call Mother low Juliet Gordon Lowe was
born and lived in Savannah, Georgia, so our Historic Council
is there.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
They're a smaller council than we are.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
However, don't forget you can buy cookies from those amazing
young women too.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Now in Savannah, for example, would they use the same
same person, same company that you know, so they may
use so many.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Here's what's great. They're over one hundred and eleven councils
throughout the United States and Girls Scouts each of us
are our own, independently operating five O one c threes.
So we use the national branding, national messaging from what
we call GSUSA, which is the Federated model, but each
of our particular councils operate as its own business.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Okay, So okay, so that's what Brooklyn is being. Selling
cookies is not your goal ultimately, But what else to do?
What else do you do in Girl Scouts? And they
do many more things besides cookies.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
I make so many new friends and Girl Scouts. I
love going camping as well. We learned so many life skills.
Camping make so many connections that elastics a lifetime as
well as being in this media with the opportunities I
get to have to even talk to you guys here today.
Girl Scouts provide so many opportunities for young girls to
really expand on whatever they want to do.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
So what do you want to do eventually?
Speaker 4 (09:24):
I want to be an antistysiologist when I get older,
so maybe a far cry from being on.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yeah right, yeah, Still, these these things they teach you
now in Scout and Girl Scouts, they they still are
things that you'll use as an anestesiologist.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Of course, buying Girl Scout cookies from your local Girl
Scouts supports the new generation of young entrepreneurs and it
really sets up for the future for all of us.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Because they're girls that are anesthesiologists. They're CEOs, they're they're
they're do everything.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
There, they're baker, they decide to be moms and lead
their households.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
It just really depends.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
So when you talk about that diversity of the Girl
Scout programming, we do have the entrepreneurial vertical, which is
the Cookie program, But outside of that, we have our
leadership vertical, of which is our Gold Award, which is
a higher ward that our girls earn because they've been
able to master a particular skill or they've ideated and
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come up with their own solution to a problem. We
also have our outdoor Stewardship, the Great Atlanta Council. We
have about fifteen hundred acres of property that we have
across three different campsites, one in Metro Atlanta, one in
our Muci, Georgia, another one in Meriweather. That's where the
girls go camp. We have high ropes, courses, canoes, legs.
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We also have forty eight horses, depending upon what you want,
so we unplug them from all of their devices and
put them outdoors. But then we also have what I
would consider to be the mental health and the wellness component,
So what does that look like for them? And we
do really heavily tether our outdoor. But then we also
have the STEM component, which is really where that antithesiologist
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comes as. As a matter of fact, we just had
our stemxfol where we had about two thousand girls come
and they learned, and we know what was great. They
were learning not just about STEM or steam oriented careers.
They were learning about how to pet in their idea,
how to protect their intellectual property. So it's so much
more than just a couple of crafts. We are truly
building the next level of leadership and we need people
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support for that.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Yes, sure you do, but you know you also at
the same time, you still have the fun. You know,
you have fun with camps and going out and doing
things and canoeing and riding horsebacks and things like that.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Can you want to know a secret? I love my job.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I bet you do.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
I do, and I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I don't know if you can tell just based off
of what I'm doing. I'll say this, I will always
love where I.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Came from from the airport to television.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
But this work in this season where I am I'm
exactly where I'm supposed to be, and when I see
the mission in motion, when I'm able to touch and
talk to a girl like Brooklyn and deal with her
mom and understand that we're.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
A part of her village.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
It only reinforces how important this work is. Yes, planes
are important, but I would argue that the next level
of leadership of girls is even more important than that.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
We were talking earlier today about girls or kids in general,
how we didn't understand how they did it, and now
the girls cats they can do it now where those
who are I understand how these kids do it.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
The first of all, they have better elevator pictures than
some of the professionals that are applying to work for me.
They know, they're learning who they are, They're discovering things
about themselves that I wasn't even thinking about at that time.
But then they're so focused, Like she's in the ninth
grade and she's like, Okay, how can I become a
better person?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
How can I do this? Hey?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
How can I get exposure to internships? I was not
thinking about internships in high school. I was still playing
basketball and figuring out what I was going to do
with my hair and my male color.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
I wasn't concerned with those things.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
And that goes back to the importance of the core programming.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
But then how do we keep this relevant?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
How do we continue to attract the next level of
girls who really want to be a part of this.
It didn't have to be Girl Scouts, or it should
be girl Scouts. And you can be a girl Scout
and Chileader Girl Scout and soccer Girl Scout and antesthesiologists
if that's what you want.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
You don't have to choose. You can do them both.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
That's true. Is that true, Brooklyn? Do you do that?
When did you start in Girl Scouts?
Speaker 4 (13:43):
I started Girl Scouts about nine years ago, when I
was thinking first grade or like second year of kindergarten.
But I've always loved Girl Scouts since I started.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
And how long can you be in it?
Speaker 4 (13:54):
You can be in Girl Scouts till you're at the
end of ambassador. But honestly, once you're a Girl Scout,
you're a Girl Scout.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Well that's right, that's right, that's right. Girl Scouts for
a lot. But yeah, I was a boy Scout alout.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
I bet you can build a bench, can't.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
We love? We love Scouts of America. They're they're a
great peer and partner.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Absolutely, I think all Scouting is wonderful. I think it
really is wonderful. Kid. I would, I know, I could,
I don't. I can't imagine not being in Scouts.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Most of the girls are coming with a need for something,
whether it's a sense of community, establishing who they are
as their sense of self, figuring out what they want
to be, who they want to be, and then also mentorship.
So we do offer that they are able to now
be in spaces where they need a CEO. I was
just telling Brooklyn, I have no idea who the CEO
was in nineteen ninety one, but here she has a
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direct relationship with that. So should she decides she doesn't
want to be the antishusiologist, but be the chief antiseusiologists
and CEO at the airport or wherever she's gonna go,
she could do that. She could do that in the hospital,
she could do there, or she wants. But it's our
job to equip her with that. And I think that's
where it comes down to the responsibility of the work.
And I love my team, but we can't do it alone.
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We need supporters. We need folks who want to expose
our girls, but we also need those who can think
big ahead enough to say, you know what, this is
my workforce. How do I make sure that she's going
to be ready for whatever her next is?
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Do you need more people to be mothers who Scout
mothers as.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
So when we start so co truth leader.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
So the way that the Scouts has broken up into
membership is we have girl members and then we have
adult leaders. And this is where I'm going to challenge you,
mister Clark. We need men that are man enough to
be Girl Scout supporters too. We cannot do this by ourselves.
So that goes back to this idea of what does
volunteer and service look like. Yes, can you be a
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co troop leader absolutely, whether it's your child, your niece
or nephew, you can do that. Do you want to
be a volunteer for an event? Well, we have a
five K that comes up. Do you want to support
us with that event? Do you want to be a
part of the stem expo where you go and you
display your particular network, or maybe you have a really
healthy corporate network. Hey, you can't do it yourself with
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your corporation or your network. Or people want to supply
us and support us and resource us, you can do
that too. So when we talk about this idea of
a volunteer experience, I want us to look at it
more from a cultural philanthropy and not the time. But
what gift and treasure can you provide and resource to girls?
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Because it doesn't have to just be a troop leader.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Right, well, that's true, that's true. It doesn't really have
to be. No, like I'll get right now, you can
do anything with us in radio. We will do anything
for you, anything for you.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Is that on the record.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Anything we can to get your stuff out, get your
word out, and get everything about about you. Everything we
can do get you.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Well, miss the clock, I have that recorded on my phone.
Just hurts you too, But I have a couple of
things for you already.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
All right, No, anytime. I know radio always always is
helpful and things like that, and we will be definite
help out on this thing.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Thank you so much. We can't do what we do
without partners like you. So we're grateful that you let
us to come out now that the snow's gone, now
to come down and hang out with you for a bit.
But as we talk about what the girls need, we
need everyone, We need support and the village does not
look the.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Same it could be in any opportunity.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Again, we talk about internships that might be here, we
talk about volunteersm it may be buying a table to
an event, and it might just simply be buying one
box of Girl Scout pickies.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
We accept all love, so thank you.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
If someone wants to be involved as an adult leader,
they go on a website and there's a place that
can go and what I know, you have to do
background checks and everything.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Absolutely I do not play with my background chess.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
But no.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
You can go to Girls scoutsatl dot org and look
under a volunteer section and there are various listings of
how you can volunteer, and it's joining membership. A membership
also can be a lifetime membership is four hundred dollars
a year. Once you pay it one time, you're a
life member. But there are so many different ways. Again,
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our girls want to be whoever, and half of them
are going to have careers that I don't even know
what they are yet. If someone had have told me
about a content creator ten years ago, I would have
asked what that meant. So again, no gift, no skill
is too niche or specialized. We have thirty five thousand
girls we're trying to support. And who knows who they are?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
It's true, that's true. Who knows who they are? The
strict's president, who knows.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Who knows? Who knows? Who knows?
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Brooklyn? Where do you do like in Girl Scouts? When
do you have meetings every month or something like that?
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Meetings every month?
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Are they? Where are they?
Speaker 3 (18:52):
What type?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
What's your meanings?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Like?
Speaker 4 (18:53):
We hold the meetings at our house and our pace,
but it can really be held anywhere in a public space.
If you want to go to your friend's house and
do a meeting there as well, feel free.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
How many people do you have in your troop?
Speaker 4 (19:05):
We have about six people in our troop, but we
used to have a lot.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Yeah, and you want more, you want to stan, the
more of the merrier. Yeah. Your troop is where they're located.
They're noon okay okay, so noon okay? All right? So
you people in noon go down there.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Or if you're looking for a Girl Scout experience, because
we do have what we have a troop led experience
where you do have a troop and as those are
usually folks you're familiar with in your neighborhood, then we
have partner led experiences where we may partner with the
YMCA or another nonprofit to offer Girl Scout programming.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
But then you have a Juliet experience.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Just say your kid is in untraditional school or they're
really really busy with other types of events and extracurriculars.
The Juliet program allows for them to self navigate while
still having a qualitative program. And I have team members
who help you figure out, like what does your curricuum
look look like? What are the opportunities you really need
to get The whole idea for me is not just
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about having a large council, because we have one that's
very impactful. It's the quality of the programming and how
are we fulfilling what those resources are and the girls
when what they need?
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Yeah, yeah, Well to talk more about the cookies, did
I see that the Girl Scouts are are two types
of cookies going away?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
So?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Well, one cookie is being Sunset and I'll tell you why.
So we just talked about supply chain, right, so the
some more, not the Samoa, the some more, the some more.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
I know people are getting the mixed up.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
The some more the somemor is being Sunset a lot
of it has to do with the band, but then
also we teach the girls that every single part of
the process the cookie has to be made, package, box,
all those things. The Somores is a little bit more
complicated and it's a little bit more difficult to fulfill,
so we're going to unset that, but we're really hopeful
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we might get a new flavor next year.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
So now you have this this some more, some more,
some more, some more.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
So it's the chocolate Graham and the and the.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Marshmallow that's available this year.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
That is available, but this is her final year or
so by every box.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
You can, every box you can buy it this year.
It doesn't matter, you're not gonna have it next year.
But what what are your types you have for sale now?
Speaker 2 (21:26):
So the most popular, the one that everybody loves, is
a truthful. The truthfoil is the one that we license
and do very very well. But she's very closely followed
by our fellow men. So we'll see which ones you have.
You have, yes, the truefoil is the Beyonce and is
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Katy Perry.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
How do you get.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Kat a wrecking?
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Okay, okay, okay, I have that ten minutes and the
tree fols.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Yes, this year.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
That means that you're going to love them so much
that you're going to be calling Brooklyn asking her to
fulfill your other cookie needs.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Okay, all right, so yeah, so so so finding more.
I just call brook Brooklyn and she takes care of everything.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
She'll take care of you.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
And if you don't, just say you don't want to
drive from your lovely home upward in north and don't
want to go to noonan, show me the cookie dot com.
Show me the cookies dot com because there is a
digital ship option, so you can ship and go drop ship.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
And you just you can just let them know what
you want, type you want.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
It is so easy.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
You're probably four clicks away from your favorite box of cookie.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yeah. Every year, I see them every year at my
Kroger and they're setting them every year. They're setting them,
and I've already bought them by then. I just give
them the money and say keep the cookies, you know.
But yeah, they're there every year, and I know they're
gonna be this year too. You'll be able to find
they sure will.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Now here's the other thing about the cookies.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Should you desire that you said, you know what I
have twelve more of my own already, I'm good.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Show me the cookies, yes, but we also have Military.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
For Smiles, which means you can buy cookies and then
just have them shipped to various military sites and bases,
so you don't have to eat them all yourself. I
know your Coleric Intake probably can't handle all those cookies,
but if you decide that you want to buy an
additional several boxes, you can send them over to the
military as well.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
That gives you out.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
It's fantastic that you do it. That's fantastic. So just
to do that, what do you do?
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Then again, when you go on there on the website,
it gives you the Military is for Smile link when
you see them. And then obviously after show me the cookies,
you'll be able to see the military sites as well.
So for those who are just like you know what,
I have more cookies than what I can eat, but
the military doesn't. So make sure if you want to
get more, you spend your dollars and send them off
to our guys and girls that are serving and protecting.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Us every day.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Absolutely, that's great, folks. Now, now you know if you've
got something you can do with these cookies. Do that?
Do that? Yeah? Yeah, well, good luck with selling the
Girl Scout cookies. I hope you sell. I hope those
some moores sell out this year.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
I hope so too.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
But for any reason, ship somebody say, you know what,
I was not on the planet and I couldn't find
a Girl Scout. Please consider following us on all of
our social media platforms and also visiting Girl Scout atl
dot org. There are so many ways to support our
movement and mission. Our girls need us more now than ever.
(24:37):
The dream gap is growing. But I believe that every
year is a year of the girl and I think
people should think that too.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Yeah, yeah, Brooklyn anything And finally, you want to tell everybody, No,
I'm just.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
So thankful I get to be here today with all
you guys. And everyone should definitely buy Girl Scout cookies.
They're very good and they support all the Girl Scouts.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Good.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
She'll be back for her internship, come back, come back anytime, anytime,
seem to come back.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Thank you, John, Thank you very much for being here today.
It was a good good to meet you, and I'll
do more with you in the future. Thank you so much.
That's Girl Scouts CEO Ji Ferrell and Girl Scout Brooklyn
Baker of newonan to find out more about the Girl
Scouts of Atlanta and how you can get cookies visiting
them at girl Scouts at L dot org. For questions
(25:24):
or comments on today's program, you can always email me
John Clark at Georgiannewsnetwork dot com. Thanks for listening. I'll
talk to you next week here on this local radio
station on Georgia Focus
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