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Speaker 1 (00:18):
All right, we are switching gears a little bit, but
be honest, that was fun, right, that was a fun conversation.
In fact, Mikayla and I heard from one of our
former sponsors.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Who said, girls, Mendy, MICHAELA, I'm dying here.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
You know, there's a lot of stories to community, Mendy,
there's a lot. That's how I'm going to make this transition.
Community can look like a lot of different things. And
so that was last segment. This segment, we're going to
talk about volunteering and just really the decrease we've seen
in people taking up and volunteering. If you notice that.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I have do you volunteer you as a listener? Do
you volunteer on a regular basis? If you do, why.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
And if you don't, why not?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Yeah, So we're privileged to have and I know Lisa
Lisa Duty from Leadership Ohio. She's the executive director of
the organization and Mindy. They just released a report called
Join In and it's all about joining civic organizations and
making a difference. So Lisa, welcome to the show. I
know you're on a little bit of a vacation, so
(01:23):
I'm glad you could call in.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Today.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Oh, thanks for having me. I'm delighted to be here.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
So where are you vacationing? Lisa India Lake? Just kidding, kidding,
she had to do.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
It, get away because she's been working so hard. I
hope you, I do, hope you do have a body
of water somewhere nearby you during this little time away
so to speak.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
You never know.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Okay, well, I'm going to hope for that for you.
So you know, I know a little bit about join in.
But tell Mindy and our listeners what this report says.
It just came out within the last couple of weeks,
and what did it find? What does it say?
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Sure, so, so join in. I would say that one
of the key messages of this report is that community
is fundamental to democracy and that the real building blocks
of a healthy society. They're not only found, for instance,
in Washington, d C. They're they're found in ordinary neighborhoods,
(02:20):
in the ways we engage with each other, how we
come together to serve, how we come together to solve problems,
help each other, and the trust we build through everyday interactions.
And the problem is that we aren't doing that at
the same rates that that we used to We've we've
been in decline as a nation since the sixties or seventies.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
So I guess our question to you is it's so
obvious why.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Well, there are a lot of reasons why. Different researchers
lean on different things. Some say we invest west in
civic end plus structure. Others say that it's you know,
part of the problem is suburban sprawl. A lot of
people certainly have talked about technology and its evolution over
the years. So many reasons again, you know, back to
(03:14):
the sixties and seventies, so so not just when COVID hit,
we've sort of stopped joining the way we used to
quite a while ago.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
And what are the things that we're not joining? So
we're talking about, you know, joining in and civic organizations,
but what could that look like lia What types of
things are people not joining anymore as much?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Well, there's there's a long list. So so Leadership Ohio,
we're just coming off a tour over the last year.
We visited eight different cities in Ohio, had community meetings
about joining in, talking about the issues, the possibilities, and
you know, we heard from folks that pretty much joining
(03:58):
across the board has been a struggle. That could be
church congregations, PTA's people don't sign up to bring the
snacks a little league like they used to. You. You know,
your your clubs that you sort of count on for
service that have been a mainstay. They're all seemingly struggling
(04:21):
to get people to come out of their homes and
back into community.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Do you think people have just gotten lazy?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Honestly, I don't know that I could answer that. I
will say that one thing that really gave me hope
over the last year with this tours that I heard
all the stories about the struggle and certainly barriers. You know,
people are also working a lot more childcare, is expenses,
(04:49):
et cetera. But there are people that still managed to
leave the house, that still managed to go ind a
hand to check on neighbors.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
To serve I will say I had a coworker at
one point when I was working at Channel four that
couldn't believe that I knew my neighbors and and I
did things with my neighbors. And for me, it was
just second nature growing up the way that I grew
up on the west end of the town that I
(05:20):
grew up in, Like you knew your neighbors, your kids
played together.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
He used to be a welcome wagon.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Yes, you had a block party where everybody would perform
and bring up a pot luck style And there is
less and less of that. I do realize that. And
I remember looking at that coworker who you would think
everyone is an incredible extrovert, believe me, and thinking, Wow,
you are really missing out if you don't know your
(05:45):
neighbors and get involved in community beyond what us TV
folks at the time were asked to do, which was
mc something. There is so much more you can do
than just that.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I think people would be shocked to know who you're
talking about. I know exactly who you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yeah, so, Lisa, you know there are some attitudes out
there like that, like oh, I want to stay in
my house, I want to do my own thing. I
don't have enough time because there's so many demands. So
how do we how do we fight that as a society, right,
because it is such an individual circumstance and mindset, Like
this report is really interesting and your tour throughout the
(06:19):
state from Portsmouth to where else did you go?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Oh? Everywhere, Sandusky, Columbus, Lorraine Athens, was there.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
A solution that came out of it. I mean I
think that, like what, so you have the conversations and
then what's the solution?
Speaker 4 (06:38):
So I mean the solution. The solution is simple in
a way, right. It just requires people making the decision
to join in, to pick one thing to extend yourself.
Start small, find something you're interested in. If you haven't
(07:00):
joined in for a long time, that's okay. And this
is how it happens. I think a lot of people
think that others. You know, no one else is joining in.
No one wants to talk to anyone else anymore. We
live in a polarized society. People are, you know, a
little gunshy to go out and meet people. But once
(07:21):
you do, I think it's infectious. Like what you get
from community is just that feeling is irreplaceable.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
So I looked online for those who do volunteer. Just
curious to both you, Lisa and Mikayla. What do you
think is the number one organization that people do volunteer for.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
I'm going to guess at their church?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Okay, Lisa, what do you think or do you know?
Speaker 4 (07:46):
I know, I don't know. I think churches have had
a lot of volunteers over time.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Well, and this I think this list that I found,
I think a lot of churches feed into this list
one way or another.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
They help out.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
So the number one organization that people donate their time
to volunteer the American Red Cross, United Way, Habitat for Humanity,
Feeding America, local food banks, and also my favorite animal shelters.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
So that's kind of the groups that people are volunteering, volunteering,
they're volunteering. So, Lisa, it sounds like your challenge to
those who are listening and to our friends and family
is to just pick one thing. That's the place to start.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
That's that's the place to start. Just pick one thing.
If you're afraid to go alone, take your family, invite
a friend. And this is all actually volunteering. You know,
it's always great. Take your family to volunteer.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Those are great.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
It's a great civic habit to develop in young people.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
And if I may say this, so Mindy and the
group listening knows this is all kind of leading towards
something bigger with civic health. Will you tea up? It's
going to be coming next And kind of the root
of some of this philosophy and data that you're seeing
because Mindy totally knows the loneliness story. So if you
could tie it all together, that would be fantastic.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Sure. So Leadership Ohio has just struck a partnership with
the National Conference on Citizenship, and together we are going
to be doing an analysis of Ohio's civic health. So
by first quarter of next year, we will be able
to share out, you know, what's happening with the Ohio's
(09:36):
civic health in terms of how healthy are our communities,
like the degree you know, what is the degree to
which people are working together to manifest common good? And
so that's coming very soon and we're really excited about that.
Ohio hasn't had we haven't had Ohio specific data since
(09:56):
twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Wow, why is that?
Speaker 4 (10:03):
It's just not something that folks were doing. They did
it once upon a time and stopped for whatever reason,
and I thought this was the perfect time to pick
it up. I do want to note that our two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of America is next year, and
this is the perfect time to be thinking about joining
(10:24):
in and thinking about our civic health.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
I think it's so great given what the Surgeon General
had said within the last year year and a half
about loneliness being an epidemic in America. I know that
that ties back to Lisa's work. Lisa, somebody's got to
do the data and somebody's got to have the conversation.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
So this is a different data. It's not just specifically Ohio,
which you're focusing on. But I'm looking up some numbers
here across the country. The average age for volunteers, they're
late thirties to early fifties. They're more likely to participate
in volunteering, while younger demos such as gen Z are
less likely to formally volunteer. Also, US volunteers were most
(11:04):
often women age thirty five to forty four.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Really, you know, gen Z, I don't think surprises me, Lisa, Like,
you know.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
It's all about me.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
It's means in my phone. Yeah, and you know selfies
and selfies. But I would say, have you heard the
word rot? I've heard the word rot.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
No, I'm learning about upside down pineapples. Now I've learning
about rot.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
So rot is when you just are in your bed
all day doing nothing but scroll. Land's called rotting.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
And so that's why I haven't heard of that.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
And I thought Actually the younger generations were supposed to
be doing better for a period of time. Maybe that
was millennials, Lisa, but gen Z, Yeah, to get them
off the couch, Like, how do we get them off
the couch to do something?
Speaker 4 (11:44):
I say, we all get off the couch and do something.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Amen.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
And you know, next year when we do have that data.
What's also interesting is that we're going to be able
to break out the data by subgroup, so we'll be
able to see, you know, like a gen Z versus
a gen X, so we'll know, you know, specifically what's
happening in Ohio.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
We'll have to have you back on when the study
is done, Like when the Ohio Civic Health Index study
is done, does.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
It coincide with donations too across Ohio? Do you look
at that as well as volunteerism, because I think some
people donate because they don't have time to volunteer.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
In a way, it can go hand in hand.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
That's a good question, Lisa. Are you doing time talent treasure?
Speaker 4 (12:26):
So the Civic Health Index is going to be looking
at indicators like have you volunteered in the last year,
have you given to charity in the last year, have
you helped a neighbor, Have you attended a public meeting?
Do you belong to a club or civic association? So
it's going to be just a treasure trove of information
(12:48):
about where we're at as Ohioans. We're also going to
be able to compare ourselves to other states, which.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Is really needed. Lisa, we're up against the break. Where
can people go to read the join in report in
advance of this work that you're going to be doing
and finishing up early next year.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Go to Leadership Ohio dot org. Click the tab and
you'll see join in.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
All right, Well, we're glad you joined us for this
conversation because I think you're right to get off your
tush and volunteer. You know that the big rule of
thumb is if you want to feel better about yourself,
do something better or do something for somebody else, really,
and that all comes down to volunteering.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Well said, leads to duty Leadership Ohio. Have a great
rest of your Sunday.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Thank you here you too.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
This is what matters.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I literally just dropped this big old drawer in.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
The studio and I'm trying to get a picture of it.
She's really struggling to get it back in folks.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
So you know how we were talking about that upside
down pineapple thing. Not to bring this back up.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
But I think you like this conversation.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
This is right.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
This person sent me a message and she said, please
don't use my name, so I won't.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
But she said.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Another sign of swinging couples is if you place boulders
at the end of your driveway.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
I have never heard that ever, ever, ever, ever.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Well, you know what's scary about that?
Speaker 5 (14:36):
I have that rings a bell really, yeah, I have
these big rocks at the end of my driveway. My
friends in the Powell community, who I will not also mention,
but yes, I've heard it. But they're not swingers. Not
my friends aren't. But they say that they the.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Big boulders are a thing.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Well, this person said it is. She said, I let
you grow over mine.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Did you google this too or did you just google?
Didn't he didn't come up.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Upside down pineapple did come up. I'm not.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I think it's kind of universal, you know, I mean,
this is you know what I've heard.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Yeah, there could be all levels of you know, maybe
the boulders signify a certain type of something in the
pineapples there could be a lot of levels to this.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
I don't know, I mean, would there could be a
deep dive done on this, and we would continue to
get text it would say mindy, I'm dying. People are like,
what is happening? This train has left the station because.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
I just Okay, this is the other thing that I
have such a hard time believing. And I shouldn't because
I know, I know, I know what Buckeye Nation is like.
But this big old game that's happening. First of all,
so many people are ticked off that Ohio State plays
Texas at noon. They're like, why are they playing such
a big game so early.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
In the day.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Do you know how much tickets are going for for
this game?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
What's your guest? Both of you? What do you think?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Ooh three fifty seven seven high?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
That's the highest?
Speaker 4 (16:02):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:02):
The highest?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
I would say like yeah, I would say one thousand
is the highest.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Yeah, you would guess that, right, Hm, Well the highest
that was found on SeatGeek dot com. You guys are
gonna crap nine thousand, eight hundred and forty nine dollars
for the first one.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Well, forget the first game. It's because it's Texas.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
I think it's the first game, but it's Texas.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I mean, still, you're looking.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
At number one against number preseason ranking and it is
Ohio State and Texas. You know what happened last year
with o Highest State beating Texas.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
The cheapest cheapest, which my neighbor, a friend of mine
who picked up her son today, was telling me, Hey,
we're we're kind of looking at Ohio State tickets, but
they're expensive. I was like, oh, okay, So I didn't
ask her. So that's what I'm curious. What we're gonna
tell me.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
The cheapest ticket.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Again on this SeatGeek dot com, the cheapest was three
hundred and ninety three. So that's an end zone seat
at the top of the stadium, so probably all the
way in C deck. This ninety nine dollars ticket for
one is right in the.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Main section on the fifty yard line. But still, is
there anything you would pay that amount of money for? No? No,
then watch them.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I shouldn't even say that. But if you pay all
that money and if your team doesn't win, oh my god.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
You know I have a good friend who has a
suite you know who that is. I wonder if they've.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Sold it basketball and football, football, football suite. But it's
the basketball.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yes, but I wonder if they sold their suite, because
I would, Oh, I would, I would one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
You I don't know. I don't know if you have
a suite. That's why you have a suite for those
type of games.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Can imagine the money you make if not count us
in right, right, you have.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
A suite there, you already have money. So true.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
A lot of companies have suites, you know when you
go up to that area. So yeah, I mean do
they sell their suites? Do they keep it? I mean,
it's the it's a recruiting to all though.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Oh yes, liahs.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Ohio State's favored by two and a half points, even
though they're ranked third, and it's because you they put.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
A lot of they're the home team.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
They're the home team. So Zach, we see fifty seven
hard out, so we're getting out. It's fifty seven to
twenty two.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Zach and Kyleene were great.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Amazing, Thank you so much.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Here, come back anytime.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Well, have you back anytime?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Little oh I oh baby
Speaker 3 (18:27):
And no matter what you do this week, spend some
time doing what matters
All right, we are switching gears a little bit, but
be honest, that was fun, right, that was a fun conversation.
In fact, Mikayla and I heard from one of our
former sponsors.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Who said, girls, Mendy, MICHAELA, I'm dying here.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
You know, there's a lot of stories to community, Mendy,
there's a lot. That's how I'm going to make this transition.
Community can look like a lot of different things. And
so that was last segment. This segment, we're going to
talk about volunteering and just really the decrease we've seen
in people taking up and volunteering. If you notice that.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I have do you volunteer you as a listener? Do
you volunteer on a regular basis? If you do, why.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
And if you don't, why not?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Yeah, So we're privileged to have and I know Lisa
Lisa Duty from Leadership Ohio. She's the executive director of
the organization and Mindy. They just released a report called
Join In and it's all about joining civic organizations and
making a difference. So Lisa, welcome to the show. I
know you're on a little bit of a vacation, so
(01:23):
I'm glad you could call in.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Today.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Oh, thanks for having me. I'm delighted to be here.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
So where are you vacationing? Lisa India Lake? Just kidding, kidding,
she had to do.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
It, get away because she's been working so hard. I
hope you, I do, hope you do have a body
of water somewhere nearby you during this little time away
so to speak.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
You never know.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Okay, well, I'm going to hope for that for you.
So you know, I know a little bit about join in.
But tell Mindy and our listeners what this report says.
It just came out within the last couple of weeks,
and what did it find? What does it say?
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Sure, so, so join in. I would say that one
of the key messages of this report is that community
is fundamental to democracy and that the real building blocks
of a healthy society. They're not only found, for instance,
in Washington, d C. They're they're found in ordinary neighborhoods,
(02:20):
in the ways we engage with each other, how we
come together to serve, how we come together to solve problems,
help each other, and the trust we build through everyday interactions.
And the problem is that we aren't doing that at
the same rates that that we used to We've we've
been in decline as a nation since the sixties or seventies.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
So I guess our question to you is it's so
obvious why.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Well, there are a lot of reasons why. Different researchers
lean on different things. Some say we invest west in
civic end plus structure. Others say that it's you know,
part of the problem is suburban sprawl. A lot of
people certainly have talked about technology and its evolution over
the years. So many reasons again, you know, back to
(03:14):
the sixties and seventies, so so not just when COVID hit,
we've sort of stopped joining the way we used to
quite a while ago.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
And what are the things that we're not joining? So
we're talking about, you know, joining in and civic organizations,
but what could that look like lia What types of
things are people not joining anymore as much?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Well, there's there's a long list. So so Leadership Ohio,
we're just coming off a tour over the last year.
We visited eight different cities in Ohio, had community meetings
about joining in, talking about the issues, the possibilities, and
you know, we heard from folks that pretty much joining
(03:58):
across the board has been a struggle. That could be
church congregations, PTA's people don't sign up to bring the
snacks a little league like they used to. You. You know,
your your clubs that you sort of count on for
service that have been a mainstay. They're all seemingly struggling
(04:21):
to get people to come out of their homes and
back into community.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Do you think people have just gotten lazy?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Honestly, I don't know that I could answer that. I
will say that one thing that really gave me hope
over the last year with this tours that I heard
all the stories about the struggle and certainly barriers. You know,
people are also working a lot more childcare, is expenses,
(04:49):
et cetera. But there are people that still managed to
leave the house, that still managed to go ind a
hand to check on neighbors.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
To serve I will say I had a coworker at
one point when I was working at Channel four that
couldn't believe that I knew my neighbors and and I
did things with my neighbors. And for me, it was
just second nature growing up the way that I grew
up on the west end of the town that I
(05:20):
grew up in, Like you knew your neighbors, your kids
played together.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
He used to be a welcome wagon.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Yes, you had a block party where everybody would perform
and bring up a pot luck style And there is
less and less of that. I do realize that. And
I remember looking at that coworker who you would think
everyone is an incredible extrovert, believe me, and thinking, Wow,
you are really missing out if you don't know your
(05:45):
neighbors and get involved in community beyond what us TV
folks at the time were asked to do, which was
mc something. There is so much more you can do
than just that.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I think people would be shocked to know who you're
talking about. I know exactly who you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yeah, so, Lisa, you know there are some attitudes out
there like that, like oh, I want to stay in
my house, I want to do my own thing. I
don't have enough time because there's so many demands. So
how do we how do we fight that as a society, right,
because it is such an individual circumstance and mindset, Like
this report is really interesting and your tour throughout the
(06:19):
state from Portsmouth to where else did you go?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Oh? Everywhere, Sandusky, Columbus, Lorraine Athens, was there.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
A solution that came out of it. I mean I
think that, like what, so you have the conversations and
then what's the solution?
Speaker 4 (06:38):
So I mean the solution. The solution is simple in
a way, right. It just requires people making the decision
to join in, to pick one thing to extend yourself.
Start small, find something you're interested in. If you haven't
(07:00):
joined in for a long time, that's okay. And this
is how it happens. I think a lot of people
think that others. You know, no one else is joining in.
No one wants to talk to anyone else anymore. We
live in a polarized society. People are, you know, a
little gunshy to go out and meet people. But once
(07:21):
you do, I think it's infectious. Like what you get
from community is just that feeling is irreplaceable.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
So I looked online for those who do volunteer. Just
curious to both you, Lisa and Mikayla. What do you
think is the number one organization that people do volunteer for.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
I'm going to guess at their church?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Okay, Lisa, what do you think or do you know?
Speaker 4 (07:46):
I know, I don't know. I think churches have had
a lot of volunteers over time.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Well, and this I think this list that I found,
I think a lot of churches feed into this list
one way or another.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
They help out.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
So the number one organization that people donate their time
to volunteer the American Red Cross, United Way, Habitat for Humanity,
Feeding America, local food banks, and also my favorite animal shelters.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
So that's kind of the groups that people are volunteering, volunteering,
they're volunteering. So, Lisa, it sounds like your challenge to
those who are listening and to our friends and family
is to just pick one thing. That's the place to start.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
That's that's the place to start. Just pick one thing.
If you're afraid to go alone, take your family, invite
a friend. And this is all actually volunteering. You know,
it's always great. Take your family to volunteer.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Those are great.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
It's a great civic habit to develop in young people.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
And if I may say this, so Mindy and the
group listening knows this is all kind of leading towards
something bigger with civic health. Will you tea up? It's
going to be coming next And kind of the root
of some of this philosophy and data that you're seeing
because Mindy totally knows the loneliness story. So if you
could tie it all together, that would be fantastic.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Sure. So Leadership Ohio has just struck a partnership with
the National Conference on Citizenship, and together we are going
to be doing an analysis of Ohio's civic health. So
by first quarter of next year, we will be able
to share out, you know, what's happening with the Ohio's
(09:36):
civic health in terms of how healthy are our communities,
like the degree you know, what is the degree to
which people are working together to manifest common good? And
so that's coming very soon and we're really excited about that.
Ohio hasn't had we haven't had Ohio specific data since
(09:56):
twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Wow, why is that?
Speaker 4 (10:03):
It's just not something that folks were doing. They did
it once upon a time and stopped for whatever reason,
and I thought this was the perfect time to pick
it up. I do want to note that our two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of America is next year, and
this is the perfect time to be thinking about joining
(10:24):
in and thinking about our civic health.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
I think it's so great given what the Surgeon General
had said within the last year year and a half
about loneliness being an epidemic in America. I know that
that ties back to Lisa's work. Lisa, somebody's got to
do the data and somebody's got to have the conversation.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
So this is a different data. It's not just specifically Ohio,
which you're focusing on. But I'm looking up some numbers
here across the country. The average age for volunteers, they're
late thirties to early fifties. They're more likely to participate
in volunteering, while younger demos such as gen Z are
less likely to formally volunteer. Also, US volunteers were most
(11:04):
often women age thirty five to forty four.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Really, you know, gen Z, I don't think surprises me, Lisa, Like,
you know.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
It's all about me.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
It's means in my phone. Yeah, and you know selfies
and selfies. But I would say, have you heard the
word rot? I've heard the word rot.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
No, I'm learning about upside down pineapples. Now I've learning
about rot.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
So rot is when you just are in your bed
all day doing nothing but scroll. Land's called rotting.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
And so that's why I haven't heard of that.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
And I thought Actually the younger generations were supposed to
be doing better for a period of time. Maybe that
was millennials, Lisa, but gen Z, Yeah, to get them
off the couch, Like, how do we get them off
the couch to do something?
Speaker 4 (11:44):
I say, we all get off the couch and do something.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Amen.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
And you know, next year when we do have that data.
What's also interesting is that we're going to be able
to break out the data by subgroup, so we'll be
able to see, you know, like a gen Z versus
a gen X, so we'll know, you know, specifically what's
happening in Ohio.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
We'll have to have you back on when the study
is done, Like when the Ohio Civic Health Index study
is done, does.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
It coincide with donations too across Ohio? Do you look
at that as well as volunteerism, because I think some
people donate because they don't have time to volunteer.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
In a way, it can go hand in hand.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
That's a good question, Lisa. Are you doing time talent treasure?
Speaker 4 (12:26):
So the Civic Health Index is going to be looking
at indicators like have you volunteered in the last year,
have you given to charity in the last year, have
you helped a neighbor, Have you attended a public meeting?
Do you belong to a club or civic association? So
it's going to be just a treasure trove of information
(12:48):
about where we're at as Ohioans. We're also going to
be able to compare ourselves to other states, which.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Is really needed. Lisa, we're up against the break. Where
can people go to read the join in report in
advance of this work that you're going to be doing
and finishing up early next year.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Go to Leadership Ohio dot org. Click the tab and
you'll see join in.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
All right, Well, we're glad you joined us for this
conversation because I think you're right to get off your
tush and volunteer. You know that the big rule of
thumb is if you want to feel better about yourself,
do something better or do something for somebody else, really,
and that all comes down to volunteering.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Well said, leads to duty Leadership Ohio. Have a great
rest of your Sunday.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Thank you here you too.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
This is what matters.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I literally just dropped this big old drawer in.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
The studio and I'm trying to get a picture of it.
She's really struggling to get it back in folks.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
So you know how we were talking about that upside
down pineapple thing. Not to bring this back up.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
But I think you like this conversation.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
This is right.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
This person sent me a message and she said, please
don't use my name, so I won't.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
But she said.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Another sign of swinging couples is if you place boulders
at the end of your driveway.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
I have never heard that ever, ever, ever, ever.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Well, you know what's scary about that?
Speaker 5 (14:36):
I have that rings a bell really, yeah, I have
these big rocks at the end of my driveway. My
friends in the Powell community, who I will not also mention,
but yes, I've heard it. But they're not swingers. Not
my friends aren't. But they say that they the.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Big boulders are a thing.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Well, this person said it is. She said, I let
you grow over mine.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Did you google this too or did you just google?
Didn't he didn't come up.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Upside down pineapple did come up. I'm not.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I think it's kind of universal, you know, I mean,
this is you know what I've heard.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Yeah, there could be all levels of you know, maybe
the boulders signify a certain type of something in the
pineapples there could be a lot of levels to this.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
I don't know, I mean, would there could be a
deep dive done on this, and we would continue to
get text it would say mindy, I'm dying. People are like,
what is happening? This train has left the station because.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
I just Okay, this is the other thing that I
have such a hard time believing. And I shouldn't because
I know, I know, I know what Buckeye Nation is like.
But this big old game that's happening. First of all,
so many people are ticked off that Ohio State plays
Texas at noon. They're like, why are they playing such
a big game so early.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
In the day.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Do you know how much tickets are going for for
this game?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
What's your guest? Both of you? What do you think?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Ooh three fifty seven seven high?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
That's the highest?
Speaker 4 (16:02):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:02):
The highest?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
I would say like yeah, I would say one thousand
is the highest.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Yeah, you would guess that, right, Hm, Well the highest
that was found on SeatGeek dot com. You guys are
gonna crap nine thousand, eight hundred and forty nine dollars
for the first one.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Well, forget the first game. It's because it's Texas.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
I think it's the first game, but it's Texas.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I mean, still, you're looking.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
At number one against number preseason ranking and it is
Ohio State and Texas. You know what happened last year
with o Highest State beating Texas.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
The cheapest cheapest, which my neighbor, a friend of mine
who picked up her son today, was telling me, Hey,
we're we're kind of looking at Ohio State tickets, but
they're expensive. I was like, oh, okay, So I didn't
ask her. So that's what I'm curious. What we're gonna
tell me.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
The cheapest ticket.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Again on this SeatGeek dot com, the cheapest was three
hundred and ninety three. So that's an end zone seat
at the top of the stadium, so probably all the
way in C deck. This ninety nine dollars ticket for
one is right in the.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Main section on the fifty yard line. But still, is
there anything you would pay that amount of money for? No? No,
then watch them.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I shouldn't even say that. But if you pay all
that money and if your team doesn't win, oh my god.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
You know I have a good friend who has a
suite you know who that is. I wonder if they've.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Sold it basketball and football, football, football suite. But it's
the basketball.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yes, but I wonder if they sold their suite, because
I would, Oh, I would, I would one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
You I don't know. I don't know if you have
a suite. That's why you have a suite for those
type of games.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Can imagine the money you make if not count us
in right, right, you have.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
A suite there, you already have money. So true.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
A lot of companies have suites, you know when you
go up to that area. So yeah, I mean do
they sell their suites? Do they keep it? I mean,
it's the it's a recruiting to all though.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Oh yes, liahs.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Ohio State's favored by two and a half points, even
though they're ranked third, and it's because you they put.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
A lot of they're the home team.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
They're the home team. So Zach, we see fifty seven
hard out, so we're getting out. It's fifty seven to
twenty two.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Zach and Kyleene were great.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Amazing, Thank you so much.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Here, come back anytime.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Well, have you back anytime?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Little oh I oh baby
Speaker 3 (18:27):
And no matter what you do this week, spend some
time doing what matters
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