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Speaker 1
Welcome, everyone, to buying local. I’m your host, Mike Nelson from Five Towers Media, joined today by Yvonne Montaigne from Nursing Minds tutoring fan. Welcome.

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Speaker 2
Thank you. Excited to have the invitation to be here.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. Of course. And this is an old hat because you’ve been on the show, before. I think it’s been a couple of years, but, excited to have you back on and and excited for your new role with Nourishing Minds tutoring and and I and looking forward to getting deeper into that. But before we do, maybe just, you know, give our audience kind of the rundown on, tell us about yourself.

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Speaker 2
And nothing too exciting. You know, kind of driven by purpose to, you know, succeed in my roles. So very familiar with the Saratoga and Adirondack nonprofit sectors, doing good work in good places. And the teams I’ve met along the way are pretty impressive. I really enjoyed building the relationships that have led to solidifying funding for a lot of organizations and a lot of, you know, people that they get to serve.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. And, you know, I’ve known you forever. I guess we’re going on a few years now. And I feel like back in the back in the day, we’ll say our paths probably crossed a few times. Then to, you seem to be really drawn towards that, helping nonprofits or working with them or for, you know, or being around them.

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Speaker 1
You know, can you kind of tell me a little bit about what it is that draws you so much to, to that part of the world?

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Speaker 2
Sure. I’ve done corporate, I’ve done private sector, but nonprofit is, you know, where so much of that intersects and and the give back always is. Early on, my career was at Saint Anne Institute, the residential facility, doing wonderful work with, court appointed girls over in Albany. And just there seeing how the private sector in the corporate sector, you know, really lifted that organization to provide so much.

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Speaker 2
And when you look at other ones, you’re wondering why they were struggling, and why there’s a constant struggle and there’s always, you know, a need and a gap. And, you know, it’s really, you know, good strategic work, making things happen. And in the name of, you know, serving more people. So that’s why this role aligned, Chris was really strong about, you know, expanding access to kids no matter their, you know, family’s income or their zip code.

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Speaker 2
So it’s always, you know, front, mind if you know, what are you doing when you go to work? And you can, you know, go there and work at a hotel or, you know, do something in the hospitality industry. And, you know, whatever drives people is great. But I definitely need a position with a purpose. So nonprofit has always filled that for me.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. And I love the position with a purpose statement, by the way. I, you know, it’s our friend Karen Kerry that we saw this morning at, at Gold Star. You know, we talk a lot about archetypes and how there’s different archetypes out there and kind of that, you know, has, an indicator of the kind of things that you are drawn to or like to do.

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Speaker 1
And, you know, like one of my archetypes is, is hero, right? So I always want to be helping people and, you know, and kind of in line as well with caregiver. So for you, what, that position with a purpose. Why is that so important to you as a, as a person?

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Speaker 2
It’s it’s deeply personal. You know, I, I’ve come on a personal journey where, you know, a lot of my life is now centered on, you know, how can I make things better? You know, maybe when I’m at the greatest people in a former life or didn’t like characteristics that came out in certain roles or personal situations. And I know for me, specifically when I was working in corporate, things were different.

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Speaker 2
It was very driven by different purposes. And, you know, there was money, there was a lot of money. But there wasn’t a lot of happiness. And, you know, at the end of the day, you know, we we meet one another and it’s always, what’s your name and what do you do? For some reason that, you know, label is so affixed in the world but you know in authentic places, you know, it’s you, what makes you happy.

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Speaker 2
Now where can we make a connection. Earlier. Yeah. You and I were talking about animals beforehand. And it’s just, you know, what’s what’s naturally connective and not just leading with, you know, a financial aspect, but we all need, you know, to be successful, but, you know, what else is there? So that, you know, that’s what kind of fills my cup is being able to know, you know, that when I’m signing on or going out to a meeting, it’s, you know, really in the benefit of, you know, people that I live near and close to.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. Yeah. It’s it’s interesting that you mentioned the money side too, because I think this has been a cornerstone of a lot of recent conversations. And, and I often I want to help people. Right. And so it’s in a lot of cases, it is at the detriment of the financial side of our business. Because I want to help everybody, and I don’t want money to be the, obstacle that gets in the way of people getting the help that they need is certainly especially small businesses that are trying to grow.

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Speaker 1
And they’re just getting started and really, you know, not even,

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Speaker 1
Having the ability yet to afford things, but at the same time. Right. There’s that balance because it’s like, well, if I want to continue to do that help for people, the business has got to run. It’s got to stay open and we need money, you know? So I always say like, hey, you know, I want everybody to have a seat on the bus.

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Speaker 1
However, the bus needs gas, you know? So I got airfare.

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Speaker 2
Yeah. You know, you can definitely have, you know, a tailored package for, you know, small businesses and nonprofits and all that. Nothing can be free. You know, we all have to, you know, acknowledge that there’s a cost to doing business. And, you know, we can make a one time donation, right? And we know that people are going to come back and ask for that donation time and time again.

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Speaker 2
Are they buying things in the midterm? And, you know, is a what’s the reciprocity there? The feeling for me has always been even with a smaller budget, you know, can we approach a local business and maybe buy a pass for one quarter apiece? If it’s a bowling alley or, you know, you and make sure that you’re giving to the business rather than just taking from and just make sure that path is open and acknowledge, you know, what the cost is.

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Speaker 2
You know, marketing. Everybody should have 15% of their budget dedicated to market, you know, can people hear me? Right? I know, I know and maybe up that a little bit, but what does it do in return? You do great things for organizations that have, you know, really small teams. I can speak to that. And, you know, really help get it out there so that people can do the job they’re tasked with doing.

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Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah. So, so tell me about this role that you’re stepping into with nursing minds. What what what what is Chris have you doing over there? What is the what is he signing me up for here?

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Speaker 2
It’s pretty much got, you know, four, four lanes. And it’s really, exciting for me. I again, always been in nonprofit. This is not a nonprofit role, but we’re we’re looking to serve and help the nonprofit community. Chris is very clear. You know, he wants to expand access to all kids that live in our area. And that Nourishing Minds is already survey.

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Speaker 2
So with that, it looks like for us, growing relationships with nonprofit organizations that already have child care programing in place, the K through 12. So we can handle afterschool programs or creating maybe something separate inside with master’s levels, tutors in place that can provide that educational component to the programing. That’s that’s happening because, listen, we have great public schools around, but you could work at a really major employer and be driving a distance and not be in a district that has as many resources.

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Speaker 2
So a partnership with these nonprofits that are already seeing the kids or a school district that has that after school care, we would love to be able to partner with them. And we can help with, you know, figuring out what the funding for that looks like as well. There’s a grant that’s identified, or if there is private funding, we can definitely help pursue, that to make sure that it’s accessible to all families that want to participate.

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Speaker 2
With that, we’re looking to also establish a scholarship fund. We’re seeking to work with a fiscal agent to hold that funds so that we’re able to support families who wish to partner with us to get one on one tutoring for their kids, but may not be able to afford tuition at full cost. So we would be able to then offer a sliding scale and make the home tutoring something that you know is accessible to much more.

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Speaker 2
Many more. Excuse me, families, I should say, around the area, independent and home schools definitely have limitations on what they’re able to currently provide, budgetary and programmatically with a master’s level educator supporting a homeschool group or a little bit extra for, a Catholic or a parochial school, we would be very inclined to pursue those conversations as well.

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Speaker 2
Finally, what’s most exciting, for me on the other side is employer benefits. How great would it be to know that your employer really believes in education and is putting a support in place, that you can access tutoring as part of your employee benefits, and therefore support your child and whatever they’re wishing to pursue. They could be a great student.

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Speaker 2
They could need help in a subject area. Maybe they need some executive function support to get stronger skills as they move forward, but those would be the four areas that we’re really looking to help grow and support and just knowing how densely populated, you know, anything from Capital District to the Adirondacks is we need to have the tutors that are able to step in and provide that quality service to ensure that the kids are getting exactly what they need.

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Speaker 1
Yeah, that’s, I love all of it. I had no idea about the employer side. And I think that is a really cool thing that you guys are going to be working on. So to understand that so you’re going to be reaching out to local businesses to talk to them about offering the ability for some sort of employer sponsored program to be able to get tutoring for their team members, children.

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Speaker 2
100% right. You get your health, your dental, and if you work for a great employer, then you have EAP and you maybe have some legal services or, you know, a privacy package with your internet security, there’s a lot of discounted items that you’re able to access. So we would absolutely be looking to talk to HR teams, and leadership teams.

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Speaker 2
And if they value education and getting, you know, great services and supports in place, we want to make that available, whether it’s, you know, independently, family through family as employees or developing a group program, if it’s a major employer and they already have, kids coming together and has that area. Albany Med, I think has their own child care center.

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Speaker 2
We would love to be able to have, master’s level tutor there to support their, their kids. And whether it’s drop in homework help or looking at building a curriculum specifically where they’re for at all.

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Speaker 1
That’s amazing. And I know that the the academic world for kids in school, too, is becoming a lot more competitive. And, and there’s changes like we’ve got the New York State Regents is going away. And so a lot of changes there as well. So, you know, leaves people with a lot of questions and obviously a lot of need for help.

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Speaker 1
Tell me more about the scholarship.

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Speaker 2
How exciting would it be to know that specifically you don’t have to, you know, go through a great application approving everything. You just want to access scholarship funds. And life is expensive. And, you know, maybe the threshold for private tutoring is just above reach for your family. And, you know, we would be able to then draw from a community account.

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Speaker 2
We have such generous business owners, private community members, and people who really believe what we do and, you know, share the similar values that want to see access available. This scholarship fund would allow a family or an organization to come with a plan, you know, how do you want it? You know, short term testing. Is it to build confidence in a certain area?

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Speaker 2
Is it to, you know, lean into literacy and comprehension, define that plan and, you know, be able to draw from the scholarship fund to make ends meet and make that access possible.

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Speaker 1
That’s interesting. When you first said scholarship, my mind, of course, immediately went to like, oh, you’re going to have a scholarship fund for like other schools. But, now that I’m understanding it better, it’s actually that for people that can’t afford to have to pay for tutoring services like Nourishing Minds, you’re actually going to have the ability to still give access to those folks, still be able to get their children the tutoring help that they need, without having to worry about the financial burden that can sometimes come along with that.

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Speaker 2
Which absolutely ensures that the same quality and attention is in place because there’s not, you know, we don’t have to discount anything or pay a different rate. Yeah. The tutors on this side, you know, the business is, you know, as it is, we know the great product that we have. We hear about it, and who are tutors are and the difference that they make.

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Speaker 2
And then being able to make that exact package, not not a modified package, you know, available to a family or a community organization.

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Speaker 1
That’s amazing. I love that, and you must be excited to hear it must be exciting. Yeah. You must be excited about it. Was it your idea or was that Chris’s?

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Speaker 2
It’s all been in in the chats, if you know what his vision is. You know his. He’s a big here. You know, he’s high level and he wants to just see, you know, more access for kids. You know, he’s so involved with his kids and, he and his wife, you know, just hands need. If you got three kids and you’re running around and you work at schools so you can see it, and again, it’s that authenticity.

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Speaker 2
You know, I was, you know, I felt very comfortable. And I believe him when he says that that’s exactly what he wants to do. And it excited me enough to to join on to make it happen.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. Yeah. I, not, you know, sing Christmas praises too much, but, you know, he’s very involved in the community, if people know it or not, through the work he does with the firehouse, and the time he spends that with. I don’t even know how he functions as, every time he comes on the show, I’m like, I don’t even know how you’re doing all this.

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Speaker 1
I think I’m a busy guy. And then I talk to Chris, and I shut right up and stop my whining. Because, you know, the guy never sleeps. He’s always on fire calls and doing things out of the community and then running a business. And and we had Lauren Lauren on as well, talking about the work that she does with kids, specifically in the nonverbal education side, which just sounds like amazing work.

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Speaker 1
And they’re both so passionate about it. So it’s like, it’s really nice, to see them doing what they do and watching nursing minds, flourish as it is. I’m curious, you know, obviously someone like yourself, you have a very wide range of opportunities in front of you all the times. But in this case, you chose Nourishing Minds.

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Speaker 1
What, what was it that draw you? And I know you’ve mentioned authenticity, but what was it that drew you to to Nourishing Minds and Chris and Lauren and the organization? On a whole.

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Speaker 2
I think it’s personal and professional, and that mix just happened to be there. You know, I know what it means to have access to things. You know, my kids were kind of brought up in the Y as a single mom who worked, you know, they had my kids before school and after school and a good education. Right? You know, my daughter is 20 and she’s graduated high school, has an associate’s degree, completed her bachelor’s, and in May is going off to grad school.

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Speaker 1
Wow.

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Speaker 2
And that’s from a single parent perspective household. You know, there’s a lot of, you know, challenges that, you know, were raised a lot of things to overcome. And, you know, as a family, we’ve done it. But, you know, the result is that, you know, good education was in place. You know, we were in Shenandoah when she was in New York.

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Speaker 2
And, you know, here we transferred and burned. Burton was a great academy up in Manchester. It’s a completely different system, but the people matter. And having a relationship with your teachers, your educators that you can’t learn from, people you don’t trust. And, you know, so often I’ve seen there’s a rotation and staff and, you know, when you’re in a childcare setting, that’s just par for the course, having the opportunity to build those relationships, is just instrumental for so many kids that really don’t always have that opportunity.

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Speaker 2
So the opportunity to make that happen, you know, that’s that’s great. That’s a great thing to get up and do every day.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. Yeah. Like you said, position with purpose. Right. It’s easy to get out of bed when you know, you’re you’re doing good in the world and working towards something.

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Speaker 2
Oh, yeah. Nobody. I mean, you go to meetings or, you know, any place I go, it’s an hour so you can be excited about where you’re going for an hour and thinking about all the great things. Or you could think about like, you know, is it a drag and you just, you know, want to get home and, you know, nobody ever wants to feel that way.

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Speaker 2
So being so motivated to get up and get it done and which relationships, you know, can I pursue this week and who am I looking to, you know, get out and meet. And it’s so important to, you know, as we heard this morning to listen, you know, just right now, early on, all I want to do was learn about what people are seeing from their seats and which areas, which non-profits, which communities, specifically what their needs are, so that we can really build an authentic and meaningful plan of action to approach, to be able to offer.

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Speaker 2
And it will always be by menu option. But you know, Menands, Green Island, you know, there’s tiny little hamlets and overwhelming districts, that really just need some extra support. And the parents are so involved, you know, pitas and people that really want to see different creative things happen. So that’s, you know, for me, just important to be able to get out there and listen and hear what’s needed right now.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. What I’m curious of what your day to day is going to be looking like in this role with Nourishing Minds me to.

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Speaker 2
It’s, you know, it’s only been two weeks and I can say, you know, I’ll be out and about, in capital districts, right through Queensbury in the Adirondacks. I’m happy to go out and need, It’s always so important to do it in person whenever there is an opportunity to. Yes. And likewise, you know, a good part of my day is going to be looking at what kind of, larger state opportunity grants are available, that organizations definitely don’t always have the resources to apply for independently, but I’m happy to lend our skills and services to pursue grant funding, in those awards to ensure that we are able to meet, you

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Speaker 2
know, more organizations and provide that level of support. So it’ll be a little bit of administrative work and, you know, just a planning, there’s going to be a lot of it to, you know, listening to people and developing, you know, what is thoughtful and response and, you know, being able to grow that over the next couple of months.

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Speaker 1
Do you do you foresee any great challenges or obstacles in front of you with, with trying to make this happen?

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Speaker 2
Oh, sure. It’s another child serving organization and you can’t get more saturated than that. It’s, you know, it’s codes for kids times. And, you know, kids need coats and kids need backpacks. And there is a lot of considerations to take in place. And just put in the mix when you’re kind of coming up with the formula.

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Speaker 2
Right. So, you know, what’s the advantage. And nobody wants to compete. You know, if you’re here to compete, it’s not a competitive place in this market. It it just doesn’t work. So right now, as we approach the holiday and giving season, I would say, you know, everybody’s going to be focused right now on what that looks like in the immediacy and in the Thanksgiving baskets and everything.

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Speaker 2
That kind of ties us through the winter as we’re developing meaningful supports that can actually enhance and provide a lot more services to the nonprofits we’re hoping to work with. So right now, it’s just, you know, that constraint of, you know, and starting a scholarship fund at this point in time, it was going to be, you know, how we approached doing it.

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Speaker 2
So, those would be the immediate challenges, that I could foresee.

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Speaker 1
Yeah.

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Speaker 2
I’m hoping that buy in isn’t going to be a challenge. I’m very hopeful that a lot of people are going to have a similar reaction to what you’ve had and, you know, find it as exciting as we do.

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Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah. It’s, I understand what you’re saying as far as there’s so many efforts. And thank God there’s so many efforts, right? Because every community needs support, right? It’s, you know, the it takes a village and, you know, rising tide raises all ships, like, all the things that come in. But really, what it comes down to is community involvement, which I think especially locally here, warm Washington, Saratoga counties, we have amazing communities.

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Speaker 1
And there are a lot of efforts in that can sometimes, like you think it’s kind of dizzying sometimes for folks because there’s just so many things going on and so many ways to support. It almost becomes, what’s the right word? Like, I don’t want to say noise, because that gives a negative connotation, but there’s just there’s so much it can kind of become overwhelming and things can get lost or, you know, where do you put your focus?

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Speaker 1
Is that is that kind of what you’re saying?

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Speaker 2
And that’s it. You know, our focus is going to be expanding education year round to kids that are able to, you know, participate and access. With that, we’re going to be able to support a lot of drives and access points. But this time of year, a lot of people do, rather than working together, try to go at their own to make, you know, for whatever reason, you know, every office has, you know, a school’s supplies drive or, you know, whatever their interests are, you know, it’s babies or animals.

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Speaker 2
One of the two, we’re so thankful, you know, we’re working with kids K through 12. But it definitely it makes my job harder and more meaningful to be able to clearly say, you know, why? Why this is needed not just in the wintertime, but why we need to start, you know, thinking about begins now because summer is going to be here before we know it, and school breaks you’re going to be.

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Speaker 2
And it was spring breaking. So if we start considering some of these plans and options now, how we know that meaningfully, really helps support, support and sustain not just, the children, but their families as well. It’s really hard to take time off of work for school vacations and align those schedules for when school is not in session.

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Speaker 2
So with, you know, full day programing, and being able to, you know, continue the education through that time and not, you know, totally recess. It definitely helps.

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Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah. Consistency is key, right? Just keep keep chipping away at it. And the more exposure that they get to education, the better off they are in the long run.

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Speaker 2
It’s you know my kids could tell you, you know, the different plants that are outside before they could tell you, you know, who’s on the radio. Think and I hope for that for, you know, so, so many families to get to experience. But it’s it’s so important that kids develop interest and be able to explore them. And so often in the academic settings that we’re enrolling our kids and do it because that’s what we do.

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Speaker 2
And it needs to happen. They need that education. But there needs to be time and space to really explore and develop healthy habits and hobbies. And education is key to being able to to do that and pursue those interest. And it all pays off as they, you know, get to be the young adults that are supporting us as we get older.

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Speaker 1
Yeah.

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Speaker 1
Well, listen, I love what you guys do. I mean, I, I’m a big fan of Chris. I’m a big fan of nursing minds. You know, they’ve worked with us, as we’re homeschooling our, six almost seven year olds. And, they’ve been a great support partner from that standpoint. So I, I can’t say enough great things about them.

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Speaker 1
And I’m very excited about you coming on board and the role that you guys are doing. And it sounds like you have some great initiatives, for if people maybe they’re running a nonprofit and they want to talk to you about what that relationship could look like, or maybe there’s someone that has a child that is looking for some tutoring services, but they’re afraid about the financial obligation that can come along with that.

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Speaker 1
How do they get Ahold of you? Or how do they find nourishing minds?

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Speaker 2
Absolutely. So nourishing minds tutoring all one word. Dot com. Is the website my number directly? (518) 466-4466. You’re welcome to call or text me. And my email is fawn M at Nourishing Minds tutoring.com. And I love their tagline. We make learning happen and they really do.

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Speaker 1
They do. Yeah yeah. It’s I so often you know especially like Gold Star. There’s people that have children that work with nursing minds inside, that group. And it’s never anything but accolades and how much they, you know, like even Bob was saying today, right, about how it’s that tutors like a part of their family or their family.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. Yeah. It’s amazing.

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Speaker 2
So yeah, I think it goes back to that relationship. And, you know, how much is that each child learning because they not only have this relationship that could only be in place through the tutoring, but that’s a whole nother person to bounce ideas and be brave and be vulnerable and learn new things and build up that confidence to ask questions in class or put their hand up or, you know, say again, you know, really, I need this.

00;26;13;01 – 00;26;24;18
Speaker 2
Could you repeat this for me? Because I want to understand, so it’s so much more than just, you know, increasing, you know, an 86 to an 89. I think it’s definitely, you know, a few layers deep.

00;26;24;20 – 00;26;29;29
Speaker 1
Yeah. Well, welcome to Nourishing Minds. And, thanks for coming on the show.

00;26;30;01 – 00;26;33;28
Speaker 2
Thank you. Yeah. Great day. And I look forward to seeing you soon.

00;26;34;01 – 00;26;48;26
Speaker 1
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