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!