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Kindness , we see it all around us . We

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practice kindness every day . Hello

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and welcome everybody to the Kindness Matters

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podcast . I am your host , Mike

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I have two women on that . I've

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had on before but they were so

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lovely that I had to have them on again Today

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. I'm joined by Missy Mershman

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and Stacy Burnham , and

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you might remember these two women

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as the

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founders of the Anoka Kindness Rock Garden

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, my second most

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downloaded podcast episode

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, and there's

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something , though , that I

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knew at the time , but

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I don't know if I mentioned it that

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there was another reason I wanted

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to have them on , and that

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is because they , in addition to the Rock

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Garden , they are both

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founding members

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of the Minnesota Kindness

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Alliance , which is a it's a non-profit

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right .

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Yep .

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Okay , welcome , welcome , missy

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and Stacy . Welcome back to the show , thanks

2:22

.

2:24

Thank you , good to be back , well , you

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guys have been .

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I'm sorry .

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I said it's good to be back .

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Ah , so nice of you to say

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you guys have

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been kind of on a roll with the Rock Garden

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You've

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had . You

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raised funds and built a

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float for the world

2:46

famous Anoka Halloween

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Parade , right . Yes

2:51

, we did , and it's such a cool float

2:53

.

2:54

It is , it is , my husband is . But

2:56

now you didn't limit it to the .

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to Anoka , you just ran it somewhere else , right

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?

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Yes , we were .

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I'm sorry what .

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We were in the Cambridge Snowflake

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Parade last night

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. It was a night parade , so it was a light up

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parade .

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Oh , that's so cool and your float does

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light up . This is not like a regular , like

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a daytime viewing . Only this

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float lights up and it was specially designed

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for that . I think right , because Anoka's

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parade is at night .

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It was designed for that . Anoka has two parades

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. One is a night parade and one is a day parade , so

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we wanted to make sure we could be in both of

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them . And then we had so much fun

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, we started looking for other parades to be

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in and we ended up in another night parade

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in Cambridge .

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Oh , you know they're

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not doing holiday as of this year , are

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they ? Minneapolis isn't ? I'm

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not sure I'm not sure , because I could see

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you guys being in that .

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Well , if anybody has a parade they want

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us in , they can find us . We love

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a good parade .

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Especially a light up parade . Who doesn't ?

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love . A good parade , though , right .

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The float just glows at night . It's really

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beautiful . Yeah , it does .

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It really is . It's gorgeous . I

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wonder if Macy's is still too . Can

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we get it out to New York City ? I

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mean , I know a short time oh

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. That

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would be a lot of fun . Talk about world famous

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. Talk about bringing bringing

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Attention to your cause

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right .

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I mean they have high school bands that march from

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all over . Why ?

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not ? Why not a float right ? You have to have dreams

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and goals .

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Yeah , we're gonna reach out to find them see

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.

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That would be so cool . I can

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be sitting there on my on my

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couch in my Stretchy

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pants , waiting for Thanksgiving dinner and go .

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I know them , that's right .

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So tell us , though , about

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a little bit about the

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Minnesota kindness alliance . Did you guys

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start that at the same time you started

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the Rock Garden ?

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Well , we did not . The Rock Garden

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started okay there's a small

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kind of fun thing to do . And

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then , as it grew , and

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then Once we

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officially moved to a site that is

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on , you know , city of

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Inoka prop park property

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, we had to do some real thinking

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about our agreement with how this was going to be

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managed . You know , the city

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is Awesome and they do

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so many great things for us , but they don't want to manage

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our events and they don't want to build our float and

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those kinds of things , and so , and

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the funding , you know that's a whole , nother part

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of it . So we had to come up with

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a way to be able to do the you know

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, financial support and the

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logistic volunteers , all of that

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stuff . So the best way we

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could think of to do that was to come up with a nonprofit

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group .

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And then and it allowed us to do this

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allows us to do more than just rock

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garden Exactly . I mean

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right as this kind of as

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the Rock Garden grew , you

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know , we kind of saw a need for to branch

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out into other things , not

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just the rock painting and

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and the Rock Garden . So the

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Minnesota kindness alliance kind of umbrellas

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is a good umbrella for all of that .

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Right , and we , you know , with that name

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of Minnesota , sure it Broaden

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our horizon out of Inoka , only

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we know , cause , where we are and that's kind

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of the heart of our Program . But

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we wanted to be able to go expand

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. And now that you talk about Macy's , I mean maybe

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we should have said world kindness . But

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we don't want it , we didn't want to be limited either

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, and so we have a written agreement

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with the city of Inoka on how things

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work , and part of it is that our nonprofit

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group , you know , kind of manages all of

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those things , the finances , the volunteers , the

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proud programs that we do . We work with them

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closely and we'll partner with them a lot

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on things all year round . But the

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Minnesota kindness alliance really does give

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us More . Yes

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, so , and like as Stacy mentioned

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, you know , with the umbrella , like it's just kind of . We

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keep coming up with more things . We want to do this

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and we want to do this , like today , we have a rock painting

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event at our site and we

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are doing a toy drive along with that to

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donate toys for toys for

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joy . That's in our Inoka County area

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. And then every time

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we think of another thing , we think we should do this and we should

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do that . Well , that's where Minnesota

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kindness alliance can help us either

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, you know , fund it or just find

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the volunteers and those kinds of things

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.

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Yeah , I Imagine there's probably no shortage

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of ideas , huh .

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Oh no , there's a very , very long list

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of ideas . You're right .

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But now you guys are . You're kind

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of embarking on at

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least what I consider a

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very

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yeah , what's

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I'm struggling for words today A

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very big year-long

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event coming up with

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the Minnesota kindness alliance . Is that correct ?

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Yes , we are . Stacy

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is kind of the brainchild

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of it and she really had a

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great idea , and so we are . We

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have a very well-written plan for the whole

8:34

year and a big event planned

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in the middle of it , so we are

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taking on a big challenge .

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Okay , so now the objective

8:46

, and this is the

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Minnesota kind . Is this the actual name

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of the event the Minnesota kindness

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alliance make a difference

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day .

8:57

Yeah , yes .

8:58

Is that the ?

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actual , is it ?

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Yeah , yes .

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Okay .

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And that is gonna kick

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off .

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Yes .

9:08

Oh no , you want to get the . You want to get the organization

9:11

name in there .

9:11

Absolutely .

9:15

So that's , that's awesome . Now and

9:18

again , this is gonna be a

9:20

year-long event , starting in January

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, so a month and a half away

9:25

.

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Yes .

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And you're gonna , you're gonna . Why

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don't you tell us a little bit about what ? What's

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gonna go into that ? Because I think this is really cool

9:36

. I have the opportunity to see

9:38

some of the the outline , so and

9:41

I'm reading through it and I'm just excited myself

9:43

. So why don't you share with our listeners

9:45

what they can expect coming

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in the next year ?

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Okay , well , we've kind of

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divided the year into quarters , you

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know . So January , february or March is

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quarter one . April

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, may , june , quarter two you

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know what's the next July , august , september

10:04

, three , october , november , december , quarter four

10:06

. And our thought was

10:08

, well , you

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know , coming up with ways to make

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a difference . And while

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we would always encourage somebody to

10:17

do to make a difference any

10:19

day , but we just thought we

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would highlight one day in the quarter

10:23

, you know , and kind of remind people , hey

10:25

, you should do something

10:27

to make a difference today , you know , and

10:29

it doesn't have to cost money

10:31

, you

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know , we're kind of trying to come up with a list of

10:36

things people can do to make a difference that

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, you know , doesn't cost , doesn't

10:41

not cost money , right , and

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you know , we'll pick that day , we'll

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, you know , put it out on our social

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media sites and just say , hey , this

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is a day , you know , do something to make a difference

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. And then send us your submissions

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, whether it's a picture or a video

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or what you did , just

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to highlight , you know , the powerful

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impact making a difference has

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, not only on somebody but

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to yourself as well . I mean , this

11:12

is just a , you know , a quote from a Mayo

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Clinic article . That

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kindness has been shown

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to increase self-esteem , empathy

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, compassion and improve your mood . It

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can decrease blood pressure and

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cortisol , a hormone directly related

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to stress levels . People who

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give of themselves in a balanced way

11:31

also tend to be healthier and live longer

11:33

, and so it

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really is kind of twofold

11:38

and making a difference . It is twofold

11:41

and along that

11:43

make you know things . You know to

11:45

make a difference , like you said , you don't

11:47

need to spend money , but for some people it is , for

11:50

some people it's making a donation , you

11:53

know . Buying a cup of coffee for someone

11:56

, yeah , but you know , paying for lunch for a stranger . But

11:59

we just want to really focus also

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on it doesn't cost money . A simple

12:03

way of a smile , holding

12:05

the door , telling somebody you

12:08

know you like their outfit , that their hair looks nice

12:10

, or you know , just

12:13

something very simple , can

12:15

really make a difference in somebody's

12:18

day and in a way you would may never

12:20

even know , right , right

12:22

.

12:23

Exactly .

12:24

Oh yeah , Absolutely . I

12:26

love that idea the

12:28

photo submission , and

12:31

you'll be collecting those through

12:34

your social media sites .

12:35

Yeah , we'll collect them and then , you know , kind

12:37

of at the end of each quarter you

12:39

know , make a little video montage of

12:41

them .

12:43

That's such a cool idea .

12:45

Yeah .

12:46

And that goes all the way through the year .

12:48

So that'll go all the way through the year . And

12:52

then what is it ? May 18th

12:54

is what we're calling our

12:56

Minnesota Kindness Alliance Make

12:58

a Difference Day Festival . So

13:01

we kind of have just a one day festival

13:03

planned . You

13:05

know a lot of it is in the works . We

13:07

do have a speaker lined up that will

13:09

. He'll kind of talk , he'll kind of

13:11

give a little speech , more kid oriented

13:14

and then adult oriented

13:16

, and we just want , you

13:19

know , like vendors and

13:21

organizations , a

13:24

place to bring people together . Like

13:26

I said , whether people

13:28

are making a difference , you know , by

13:30

donating money . You know

13:32

they may learn of some new

13:35

local nonprofits they could donate

13:37

to . We'll have some mental

13:39

or their time .

13:40

Yeah or their time .

13:41

Yes , their time or their ? Talent A

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lot of the groups we've worked with behind the

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scenes on things . That's another thing that they

13:47

need . Maybe your way of making a difference

13:49

is to volunteer at a you

13:52

know a shelter , or with you

13:54

know with our group or with somebody .

13:56

Or they or what . Have you a food

13:59

shelf ?

14:00

Right , or we're just

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really trying to find you know

14:04

a little more , not necessarily

14:07

no local to Anoka or Anoka

14:09

County , or you know , could be Minnesota . Just

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um my , my thing of it is is I

14:16

would personally rather give to something a

14:18

little more local than than the bigger organizations

14:21

. Well , I know there is a need for that

14:24

. Oh sure , that is my personal opinion

14:26

.

14:27

And we really have met quite a few small

14:29

groups that that have are

14:32

making a big difference and you

14:34

know we want to help them grow

14:37

because we know what a difference they're

14:39

making . So here's a way for them to showcase

14:41

that they have to um , you

14:43

know and Stacy touched on the the

14:46

Mayo's document about

14:48

kindness and giving , how

14:50

it helps the person you give

14:52

to , but also yourself , and we

14:54

really want to help

14:57

make a difference in our community

14:59

, anoka or Gromp , larger

15:01

um with people with their self

15:04

care and their mental health . That's a

15:06

really important thing to our group . So that's

15:09

how we kind of came about with this

15:11

concept .

15:14

That's so fantastic . I absolutely

15:17

love that . So , not so May is

15:19

, is the the festival

15:21

?

15:21

Yes , and then you

15:24

, and then you continue it through

15:26

the year just continue it through the year and maybe

15:28

, maybe some people will find something

15:30

at the May Festival that they

15:33

use for their make a difference day . You

15:36

know , idea further

15:38

down the rounder , you know in

15:41

quarters three and four .

15:42

Right , yeah

15:46

, oh , absolutely , absolutely

15:48

. That's so cool . I Think

15:54

it's such a great thing you guys are doing and

15:56

you never cease to amaze

15:59

me . I Absolutely

16:03

love it . I do so

16:06

at the end of the year

16:09

, then what happens

16:11

then ?

16:13

Oh , yes , you know we gotta oh

16:15

boy .

16:16

Have we got a plan I ?

16:18

Mean our big dream do it all again .

16:20

This . This sounds like a huge undertaking

16:22

.

16:23

Yes , I mean , if that camp , if that goes

16:25

good , maybe we'll continue it again , but

16:28

I mean long term down

16:30

the road . You know , we are just a

16:32

very small Non-profit with

16:34

a really big dream . You

16:37

can tell us , you can tell me about our dream .

16:39

Well , our big dream , you

16:41

know . I think for

16:43

me one of the things is the

16:46

, the outreach to the community , and yeah , it's really

16:48

fun that we all come together and we do these

16:50

things , but but behind the scenes

16:52

we Stacy and I and the other ladies

16:54

that kind of help manage this to Mental

16:58

health and , and you know

17:00

, suicide awareness , those things Making

17:03

sure people have their needs met . That's

17:05

really important to us . So our big

17:08

dream is to have a

17:10

place in our area

17:12

that is

17:15

similar to something that they have in the city

17:17

of st Cloud and they call it the Cophouse

17:20

, cop , and it's is

17:22

actually a home that is owned

17:25

by the city and run by

17:28

different nonprofit groups . The police department

17:30

have involvement and they

17:32

have lots of outreach things

17:34

there for the community . I really

17:36

encourage people to try to find the information

17:39

. Maybe , mike , we can get you a link To

17:41

see what that looks like in st Cloud . We've

17:43

been absolutely . I have toured it multiple

17:45

times . We really have kind of

17:47

a good plan for that . It

17:49

just takes people time and , of course , money

17:52

. But we're working on that .

17:54

We will be right back with more

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Okay , so the cop house in st Cloud . Is that correct ? Yeah , yeah

19:00

, and we're not

19:04

. When we say cop house , we

19:10

don't we're not cop .

19:12

Cop stands for community outpost

19:14

. Oh Okay , I immediately went

19:16

. And

19:18

there is , there are , there is an office where a couple . Officers

19:22

have some office space in there but they do a

19:24

lot . They do , you know , some wick Wick

19:30

appointments there . Like

19:33

community . They teach . You know they have people that come in and

19:35

teach cooking classes and homework help they sponsor Soccer

19:42

team for the youth in the area .

19:43

They have coaching out of there . They on

19:45

Thursdays it was candy day . Yeah , that's like trick-or-treating

19:47

every Thursday , and one of the

19:49

days we were there was a bus . School bus had stopped and all the kids

19:52

got off the bus . It came and knocked on the door for

19:54

candy . Mm-hmm , it was very so . Yeah , the

19:56

, the community knows , you know , the kids in the community

19:58

.

19:59

Know what day they can come . You

20:01

know , and it really just is . It's like a community house

20:03

and a lot of people , different people , a lot of different

20:05

Organizations

20:10

, do a lot of different work right out of

20:12

there and we are thinking , oh , we'll build a home here .

20:15

Yes , that I mean . I guess that could happen here too

20:17

but it could just be any kind of a space . It

20:21

could be a retail storefront , it could be a , you

20:23

know , an older building somewhere . We just want a space

20:25

.

20:26

The reason it's a house in st Cloud is

20:28

it's on the site of what was like , I think

20:30

, a former meth . Yeah , that's a lab , a drug

20:32

house . Oh

20:35

wow , the cops were there numerous times

20:37

and then they kind of got you

20:39

know a bad rap in the community . So the city

20:42

, or whoever you know , shut

20:45

down the drug house . They , you

20:47

know , demolish the house and they

20:49

got this funding and and they do , they did build

20:51

it's . It's a house that At some point in time

20:54

, if they choose to , they can , they can sell it to somebody

20:56

and somebody can live in it

20:58

. It's

21:03

a handicapped assessable .

21:04

So it's you know for all . Any kind of family or person that would want to live there could

21:06

do that . It's beautiful . Oh

21:12

wow , there is very beautiful and .

21:16

So really is a community out

21:19

.

21:19

When we say house , it's it they

21:21

don't have housing there , but no , no

21:23

, but it is a . It is a house

21:26

technically a house in a case

21:28

, right in the middle of a neighborhood

21:30

.

21:32

Anoka kindness house .

21:34

Yeah , wouldn't that be nice

21:36

.

21:37

I'll keep thinking about it . I'll

21:39

get back to you . Okay , that so

21:41

. This is . This is Minnesota kindness

21:43

, alliances , big dream . It

21:45

is what , eventually

21:47

, you would like to see happen

21:50

. I

21:52

think that's a great dream . It's

21:54

a fantastic dream . Right

21:56

and yeah it doesn't

21:58

have to be anoka right , because

22:03

I know how we just started here .

22:05

I'm like Well , right .

22:07

Yeah , I mean , that's where you guys are based

22:09

and makes sense that a lot of your things

22:11

take place there .

22:12

but but , yeah , I

22:14

think , in order for it to work , the

22:17

best would be in a place where there's kind of

22:19

a higher concentration of people , of

22:21

community needs community , community

22:23

services . So , right

22:26

where I live , on the outskirts of the Anoka

22:28

area , and the homes are farther apart

22:30

, I don't take sure it being as workable

22:33

there , you know , in a , in a

22:35

neighborhood area , like like where

22:37

our painting site is at a park you

22:40

know , something like that where families who

22:42

don't have transportation , or or children

22:44

or , you know , or kids from school

22:46

, can get out , you know , get out of school at the end of

22:49

the day and maybe walk to if they need to

22:51

do .

22:51

Oh sure , you know , and

22:54

the city of Anoka has some

22:56

their main , your main street . There has

22:59

some great buildings .

23:01

I sure do .

23:01

And and quite

23:03

often has storefronts open .

23:06

We had our eye on a piece of property that

23:08

was ideal location

23:11

and just sold just not the right time

23:13

yeah

23:17

.

23:17

Well that's so fantastic

23:19

and I'm so excited for

23:22

the make

23:25

a difference day project .

23:27

This is going to be amazing and

23:31

I just wanted to touch on back to

23:33

the that are make a difference

23:35

day project Missy

23:38

and I are kicking it off with

23:40

. We were actually we got a little microgrid From

23:44

an organization called the Love

23:46

and Kindness Foundation project

23:48

, so we submitted an idea

23:50

of , you

23:53

know , an act of kindness

23:55

and they

23:57

accepted our idea . So

23:59

we are the sweet care of Thanksgiving

24:02

. We're picking a day and we have

24:04

. We were given money , enough money , and

24:06

we're buying 10 $25

24:08

gift certificates to Cub Foods and

24:11

we will be at the Riverdale Cub Foods

24:13

just randomly handing them out .

24:16

Oh , that's so cool , yeah

24:18

, so .

24:20

Riverdale Cub .

24:21

Food . I'm trying to picture that Riverdale

24:24

.

24:24

Riverdale yeah , over there , and highway

24:26

10 . Yeah , so , oh

24:30

, that's great .

24:32

Great support of our programs

24:34

are all of the things we do and they're crazy

24:37

ideas , so we would like to give

24:39

back to the people in their store , their

24:41

customers , to yeah

24:43

, absolutely , but now

24:45

okay .

24:46

So , yeah , that's fantastic

24:48

. I wish you guys so much luck

24:50

and so much love You're you're

24:53

you're doing good work

24:55

there and I'm so excited

24:57

to see all the exciting things that you guys plan

24:59

and have coming up .

25:01

Thanks you . We hope to come back

25:04

and report great things .

25:06

I want to also invite anybody that's listening

25:08

, if they want to participate

25:10

, to make sure to find us . I mean , if they want to physically

25:13

participate , call us and or

25:15

email us and we can help , you know , make

25:17

something happen or make sure

25:19

they participate on our social media during our

25:21

yearlong festivities .

25:24

Or if they want to come to that , they want us

25:26

photos and yeah , or if

25:28

they want us to come to an event of various

25:30

legal yes

25:33

.

25:37

To some schools , all kinds of things .

25:40

You guys are doing good work

25:42

there and thank you so

25:44

much for coming back on I . You know what we'll

25:46

have to . Maybe we'll touch

25:48

base next year and see how

25:50

the programs go on .

25:52

Mike , maybe , maybe you'll come live

25:54

from your to your audience , from

25:56

the festival on the .

25:57

I have never done that before .

26:00

There we go . There's your first . Now you got to figure

26:02

out how to do it by then .

26:03

Yeah , I've got what me you

26:06

said I got until

26:08

May to figure it out . I'm

26:12

down for the challenge , and that was

26:14

speaking of challenges . You're going to have challenges

26:17

all the way through this thing , right ? Yes

26:19

, random

26:22

acts of kindness All

26:24

right , missy Merchman

26:26

and Stacy Burnham , thank you so

26:28

much for being on the show again . I

26:31

cannot wait to follow your

26:33

, your progress on this project

26:36

, and I wish you all luck

26:38

in the world .

26:39

Thank you .

26:42

You're very welcome . Take care and have a great

26:44

Sunday .

26:45

You too . Talk to you later , bye .

26:48

I don't know about you guys , but every

26:50

time I listen to those two women , I'm

26:53

always just so inspired

26:55

and so invigorated

26:58

and so motivated and

27:00

I just they

27:02

. They do me a service every time they come

27:04

on my show . I want to have them on

27:06

over and over and over again Missy

27:09

Merchman and Stacy Berman

27:11

from the Inoka

27:13

Kindness Rock Garden and Minnesota

27:16

Kindness Alliance . There it is . That

27:20

will do it for this episode

27:22

of the Kindness Matters podcast

27:24

. We will have another episode next

27:27

week . Make sure to check the show notes for all

27:29

the links for for these two women

27:31

and their , their different organizations . And

27:34

but in the meantime , be

27:36

that person who roots for others , who

27:39

tells a stranger they look amazing

27:41

and encourages others to

27:44

believe in themselves and their dreams

27:46

. I thank you so much for the gift of your

27:48

time today . You've been listening to the Kindness

27:51

Matters podcast . I am your host

27:53

, mike Rathbun . Have

27:55

a fantastic week .