Episode Outline

Zack Wyatt joined the table his amazing organization that is trying to empower community and strengthen the local food systems!

Full Episode Show Notes are Available on our website at https://www.giveimpact.org/podcast-

0:29 Welcome Back!

2:30 Intro to Zack Wyatt

9:33 Zack shares how he met his wife Abby and how he got into farming

13:11 Zack mentions that “There’s a big motto we have within the organization, once you know, you can’t unknow”

14:09 Zack expresses his lens on the propaganda around the food system

· We get 50-60% of produce from Mexico

· We get 30% of produce from Canada

17:09 Zack shares one Authentic thing about himself, “You get what I am, there’s no other version”

19:40 Maya invites Zack to pull an Affirmation Card. “I celebrate all the greatness in my life”

20:25 Zack shares one of his favorite phrases, “there’s tons of opportunity in chaos”

21:53 Liz and Zack reflect on the challenges of owning and growing business

23:27 Zack drops a gem, “growing doesn’t have to be just up, it can be out. It can be understanding and building capacity before taking the next leap or you can take the next leap and hope that the capacity comes. The only thing that’s going to win is perseverance”

23:23 Zack expresses “We need the big system players on some levels because if we can get them to change their supply chain a bit, we can change the world fast”

26:03 Maya asks Zack to dive more into the mission and origin story of the Carolina Farm Trust

28:35 Zack drops another gem “It’s a system thing; you’re never going to solve food insecurity by focusing on food insecurity. The amount of food insecure people is always going to be more than what you have available”

31:06 Liz shares her lens on capitalism & philanthropy

35:04 Zack shares a nugget of what scientists are saying, “we have about enough topsoil for another 34 years”

35:15 Liz and Zack discuss the importance of composting and gives information about Crown town Compost

· https://www.crowntowncompost.com/

37:14 Liz asks Zack to talk about what a Regional Food Economy is. He breaks down the ecosystem and logical solutions to how it can be improved and the things that people can do every day to make a difference.

44:43 Maya asks Zack, where do you see the future of our food system going?

48:31 Liz asks Zack to share information about the current programs that he has in Charlotte that are making an impact on the community

· Phase I: CFT Market in West Charlotte

· Phase II: Retail grocery store, teaching kitchen, and processing center, and a mobile grocery store

· Fundraising: $1.5 MM short-term for operations

o Total Capital Spend: $8.2MM

You can donate at: https://carolinafarmtrust.org/

Maya & Liz sits down with Adrienne & Emmanuel Threatt from Hope Vibes to discuss their journey that led to the creation of serving the homeless community.

Full episode show notes can be found at https://www.giveimpact.org/podcast

Episode Outline

0:49 Welcome Back!

2:26 Intro to Adrienne & Emmanuel Threatt

8:25 Adrienne and Emmanuel share their separate backgrounds before starting Hope Vibes

18:00 Maya invites Adrienne and Emmanuel to share one Authentic thing about themselves

· Adrienne: “I make it a practice to embrace pain and purpose simultaneously “

o “If I can make my pain purposeful, then it won’t hurt as bad”

· Emmanuel: “I like to learn random things that can have no baring on anything, just random information”

22:06 Emmanuel shares how he’s recently been on a coffee journey of becoming a ‘coffee snob’, and shares some of his favorite spots in the city with the listeners

· Night Swim Coffee, Enderly Coffee, Indigo Coffee, Lotties Café,The Percantile and Creamery and Finca Coffee

26:41 Emmanuel shares a quote that both he and Adrienne live by, “Do what you can with what you have until you can do more”

29:17 Adrienne takes us on the journey of how Hope Vibes started

32:40 Emmanuel tells us about the dream he had about a truck that turned into the innovative Hope Tank and the research that he did to make it come to life

· https://www.hopevibes.org/hopetank https://www.seed20.org/

37:39 Liz invites Emmanuel to share what it’s like for a homeless neighbor to experience the Hope Tank

· Artist: Frankie Zombie https://www.frankiezombie.com/

41:21 Emmanuel drops a gem “We feel like dignity is wrapped up into everything that we do”

45:14 Emmanuel discusses his thoughts on what organizations are doing in the community and how it has to go a step deeper. His thoughts on shelters and how family dynamics are affected by them

51:49 Liz invites our listeners who are landlords to work with organizations whose mission is for placement of families and individuals:

· Charlotte Family Housing, The Housing Collaborative, & The Lotus Campaign

52:46 Maya asks The Threatts to share their impact in numbers so far in their journey and the goals that they have for the future

54:32 Emmanuel drops a gem “Sometimes we feel as individuals like we need to be fully the solution, but really you might just be an ingredient to the solution”

59:58 Emmanuel shares how the listeners can support their mission

· Donate money, time, and hygiene items

· Follow them on social media and share content! @hopevibesclt

· Visit their website at https://www.hopevibes.org/

1:01:35 Adrienne shares the need for of how monthly partners can best support the Hope Vibes mission, what the money is allocated towards, and why giving is so critical!

1:02:55 Liz sets a challenge to get 100 new monthly givers! Give Impact is a monthly partner! Join us in supporting this incredible organization. Anybody can be a philanthropist!

We sat down with the one and only, Tanesha Thompson, Owner & Broker-in-Charge of Synergy Realty Group℠ - NC, Mecklenburg Times 2021 50 Most Influential Women Honoree, Career Mastered Emerging Leader Award Winner 2022, and Connect CRE 2023 Women in Real Estate Award Winner

Full episode show notes can be found at https://www.giveimpact.org/podcast

0:33 Welcome Back!

0:44 Intro to Tanesha Thompson

3:45 Tanesha shares one Authentic thing about herself, “I tend to gravitate towards opportunities to elevate, uplift, and empower women; I am for and about women always”

7:10 Maya invites Tanesha to pull an Affirmation Card. “My greatest experience of freedom comes when I let go of what others think of me”

7:55 Tanesha shares a story from the moment of her life where she gained her freedom from others “I was now going to set the tone for who I am, what I do, how I do, and how I exist in the world”

10:37 Tanesha expresses her gratitude for a woman who changed her life during her real estate journey, she reads her favorite quote by Marianne Williamson, “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us...

13:48 Liz reflects on the time when she decided to start Give Impact and leave her job around this time 5 years ago

15:05 Maya expresses her personal gratitude for Tanesha and invites her to share more about her journey in the real estate industry

18:23 Tanesha drops a gem “I’ve got God, I’ve got Gumption, I’ve got Grit; I can do Real Estate”

20:05 The table discusses Tanesha’s First Time Homebuyer program and how the special story behind how that started

27:37 Tanesha drops another gem “Someone has to have ownership in order to make an impact for generations”

29:11 Tanesha talks about the things that she’s doing to help people get ready for homeownership and all the ins and outs of the process

32:12 Liz and Tanesha talk about the importance of having a broker during the homebuying process

34:20 Maya reflects and shares her experience of working with Tanesha as a first-time homebuyer

42:08 Liz and Tanesha talk about Condos, Townhomes, and Duplexes

47:10 Liz shouts out her Real Estate Agent: Kelly Blandford with Helen Adams Realty

49:00 Courtney shares some of the challenges that she’s seeing buyers face in the Charlotte market (Credit History, Fear, & Trust)

52:40 Liz shares an group/app she’s recently learned about that some affordable housing organizations are partnering with called Flex that helps tenants by their landlord paying their rent on the first and then the tenant paying them back in flex during the month

· https://getflex.com/

55:13 Tanesha ends by giving a piece of advice to buyers as they navigate a changing market “Talk to someone you can trust & seek education. Empowering through education and relationships”

55:59 The table shouts out a few organizations that are impacting the community through homebuying

· Synergy Realty Group The Applesauce Group

· DreamKey Partners Habitat for Humanity

· WeBuild Concord True Homes CMS