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608. A Convo with Bellamy Young: Storytelling Hope + Empowerment with CARE

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Meet Bellamy. 🤝 She’s known for her roles in hit shows like Scandal, Prodigal Son, and Promised Land, but Bellamy's passion extends far beyond the screen - she is also a dedicated ambassador for international humanitarian organization CARE. 🧡

Tune in to hear more about CARE’s holistic, community-driven approach to sustainable development, and a glimpse into Bellamy’s new limited podcast series, She Leads with CARE. 🎧  

From Vietnam to Ukraine to Tanzania, community leaders join Bellamy to share their life experiences to show how local empowerment programs are changing lives.Listen to our full conversation with Bellamy at the links in the comments. And be sure to listen + subscribe to She Leads with CARE, launching tomorrow. ✨

đź’ˇLearn: 

  • How Bellamy's own experiences shaped her heart for service and advocacy.
  • The inspiring origins of CARE and their unique approach to empowering communities.
  • The ripple effect of empowering women and girls, uplifting entire communities.
  • Practical ways you can get involved and make a difference.

Episode Highlights: 

  • The Impact of CARE: Transforming Lives Globally (02:59)
  • Empowering Women: The Heart of CARE’s Mission (06:01)
  • Connecting Through Stories: The Power of Shared Humanity
  • The Importance of Engagement and Connection (22:22)
  • Finding Inspiration in Kindness (27:05)
  • The Impact of Philanthropy and Generosity (28:33)
  • Curiosity as a Path to Connection (32:19)

Episode Shownotes: www.weareforgood.com/episode/608

Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/p0bihgwNOQV4BrflHkpceHdkY2o?utm_source=copy_url

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Speaker 1:

Hey, I'm John.

Speaker 2:

And I'm Becky.

Speaker 1:

And this is the we Are For Good podcast.

Speaker 2:

Nonprofits are faced with more challenges to accomplish their missions and the growing pressure to do more, raise more and be more for the causes that improve our world.

Speaker 1:

We're here to learn with you from some of the best in the industry, bringing the most innovative ideas, inspirational stories, all to create an impact uprising.

Speaker 2:

So welcome to the good community. We're nonprofit professionals, philanthropists, world changers and rabid fans who are striving to bring a little more goodness into the world.

Speaker 1:

So let's get started. Becky, how are you handling this right now?

Speaker 2:

I'm not handling it well because people say like don't meet your heroes. But I just kind of met one of my heroes from Scandal and she cares so deeply about the world and about women and children. So, yes, I'm geeking out just a little bit.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, Friends, I mean, buckle up. It is a huge honor to have Bellamy Young on the podcast today. You probably know her from her roles in Scandal, Prodigal Son, Promised Land. I could keep going on. But also she is an ambassador for care and we are going and I just got to pause If you're not familiar with the work of CARE, like, stop what you're doing, Go check out this organization. It's impacting millions of lives around the world through critical healthcare, nutrition, food, clean water and protection from violence for women and girls. But Bellamy, you know this captured her heart and it began her journey of supporting and working with CARE. But now, as a CARE ambassador, she is a member of CARE's global advisory council and she is here to share about this exciting project launching a new limited podcast series. You know we love the podcast called she.

Speaker 1:

Weeds with CARE. Bellamy, what an honor to have you in our house. Welcome to the podcast.

Speaker 3:

It is my joy. Thank you, guys, for everything that you do. I'm so grateful to be here with you today, but also just truly grateful for the way you lift all the voices in this space up and how you really give us all actionable ideas about how to move forward together.

Speaker 1:

Oh my gosh, thank you, and I mean Bellamy just was at the Today Show. She drives over to get on the podcast.

Speaker 2:

Totally was on the Today Show.

Speaker 1:

today we're going to mix this up a little bit, because we love getting to know the humans behind this work and I think a lot of people are familiar with your work, but we want to hear about you as the human growing up like what were some formative experiences. Maybe growing up that's connected, the dots and the work that you're doing today.

Speaker 3:

Oh my gosh, what a beautiful question, and we'll find the answer together, because I can't say that I would know it right now when I'm starting to talk. I grew up in Asheville, North Carolina, in the mountains, Western North Carolina, so beautiful. I was in foster care for a little while and then adopted into a family and bless my parents. Because they got some truly bogus information about my birth parents and tried to give me all these opportunities. They thought you know?

Speaker 3:

oh, your mother was a singer and she loved to sew, and so I was so pretty in pink in high school and I was in all the pageants and, you know, sang at church and did all the things. Uh, I have met my birth parents and no, she does not sing and no, she does not. So we got just like somebody else's information. So I feel like I got to stumble into a life that I love so much. Y'all. I feel so grateful. You know that whole adage of you never work a day in your life if you love what you do, and that's never proved more true than in my short stint on this planet. So, and I feel like thank you for liking Scandal.

Speaker 3:

I liked it too, so good.

Speaker 2:

And I'm not surprised you for liking Scandal I liked it too so good. I'm not surprised you're supporting strong women.

Speaker 3:

You've been representing them on screen for years, Honey that was a big act, as if that was seven seasons of act.

Speaker 3:

As if, because I am a non-confrontational human, but Meli has no problem but I didn't, like I had been very afraid, I think, but I didn't like I had been very afraid, I think, of engaging in the world in any you know what could in any way be construed as contrarian, until that job, and that job really made me understand that democracy is a verb, that life requires participation, and also was kind enough to make it so that somebody would talk to me, you know, like if somebody would have a conversation like this and we can try and stumble forward together and leave this planet a little better than we found it.

Speaker 2:

I mean, you loved her as an actress, but do you not just love her more as a human? Like I just think you're so real and authentic. Thank you for sharing that personal story about growing up because like I can just see little Bellamy in the Molly Ringwald pink dress, like like totally just like getting her little sewing kit out, like making it happen. Um, but I I feel your heart so much in what you say and I know even watching you when we're talking about care in your intro, like there's a softness to you and it's clear you love this organization so much. And so tell the audience, who maybe has never heard of CARE, tell us a little bit more about who they are and tell us how you first got involved and sort of the impact this organization is making worldwide.

Speaker 3:

Well, the amazing thing about care is everybody knows care, because 80 years ago, after the war, the second world war, uh, people came together and they thought, oh my goodness, everybody in Europe is really hurting. What can we do to alleviate their pain in any way we can? And the care package was created. And it is really. This whole organization is born out of people's hearts, just wanting to connect and help anyone they can in any way they can, and from that a whole organization has grown. That's very bespoke. They still do the same things.

Speaker 3:

They go into a local community, they assess what need might be around by asking the people who live there. They hire the people who live there to help them create a rubric and a structure that can allow for transformational change. And they really their end goal is their own obsolescence. They just want to help people thrive. And it just speaks to the fact that we can all do so much by just helping a little. Sometimes we all just need a little bit of a leg up and we can do the rest on our own. We can run the race, but we need that help initially and we'll all be on that side of equation. We will all need help and we will all be able to give help, care, what?

Speaker 3:

I love is that they focus on women and girls because they've got the data, they've got all the empirical number numbers and when you lift up women and girls, they bring their families and their communities with them, so it causes change within a whole region when you do that sort of work, and it just always spoke to me that that teach a man to fish kind of ethos, cause it really, uh, it reminds us what we're each capable of on our own, but that we all need each other to be able to reach our highest goals and highest good.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I mean there's so much dignity and so much empowerment in that and it's like I love that it traces back to what a care package means. I mean there's, that's such a weighted phrase and it means something when you just say that out loud and that's the hope that I guess has been there for so many years and I didn't even know it was there, like that's so beautiful.

Speaker 3:

I know it moves me every time because it's just the act of love. I'll give what I can to make you feel better.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, so beautiful. Well, I mean, I love that you are launching this incredible project with care. Honestly, it couldn't be happening at a better time because I feel like we're all looking for the uplift. We're looking for hope and stories of hope, and so your series she Leads With Care. I'd love for you to kind of tone set about how did it come about and like what can we expect through it.

Speaker 3:

Well, it took a, it took a beat. This came about during COVID. I felt very isolated, very alone, very disempowered, and I was realizing that I was turning anywhere to look for hope, to look for connection and care. These stories have always moved me so much the way these women change their lives and then turn around and bring somebody else up next, and the ripple effect and the power of that. And I thought, oh my gosh, why wouldn't everybody want to know about this work? And they can participate if they're able in any way. They can advocacy or volunteer or donation or they can get involved themselves. And also right now, we just need to remember that change is possible, that we can make a difference in each other's lives and that we're all connected.

Speaker 3:

And so I pitched it to Michelle Nunn. Sweet, wonderful Michelle Nunn. I mean, what a human, what a leader, what a big heart. She's the president of CARE. Hi, michelle, she was down with it and it's taken us a couple of years because they had me at the helm, so that I'm a bit of a novice in this space. There was a big learning curve there and also doing a podcast in multiple languages. There's a lot to learn about that, doing a podcast globally where you need to ship equipment and you know find Wi-Fi and you know there's just logistically. There was a bit of a lift in that regard from you know the innocent dream that I was like let's tell these stories. But my amazing team at CARE and Sunshine Sacks also, like we all, were equally committed to these women's stories getting out in the world so that everybody else could warm themselves in their sun.

Speaker 2:

It's funny you talk about warm yourselves and their son. I just keep thinking that, like storytelling is this way for us to plant roots, you know under whose shade like we'll never sit in. It's like we need to understand how to get rooted in somebody else's story, how to feel changed by that, and I'm just deeply curious about this because I can tell that you are one of these heartwired humans that when you hear something it just moves you deeply. What was this process like? Are you sitting down with another woman or a girl from another country, and what is the experience like for you on the receiving end? I know you're kind of probably moderating and guiding these questions, but how did that feel to you? What did you experience?

Speaker 3:

It was humbling and thrilling and always I mean I always I cried like three times every interview just to just so moved. You know, I get it truly right and so grateful to be having the conversations, for it to be the 21st century where that's even possible. Like just the tech alone of it, cause I'm a very 20th century human pens and papers and you know horse and buggies but, um, it was phenomenal.

Speaker 3:

I do, I try to do a bunch of research, so I, so I, because I feel like, first of all, that's the only respectful way to engage. I want to know, you know, all about coffee making in Vietnam so that I can have a conversation with Ben about both growth and production and marketing and distribution. I want to carry my own weight. I want to learn about women and land rights in Nepal and what the social norms are in Jordan, so I can understand what it means that Raida has become a plumber there, that she's a female plumber. So you want to make sure, I wanted to make sure that there was deep context, so that the conversation can go anywhere and always.

Speaker 3:

The thing that got me the most, to be honest, was that the conversations go in the same place, because we're all just humans and it doesn't matter how different our circumstances may be. We need and want and dream and hope and hurt and um, heal and all the same ways, and I think that's always what the when I, you know, clicked off of Riverside like had to just sort of sit and take the enormity in. Yeah, um, I didn't quite my. So my sweet, my sweet, um, english teacher mother just turned over in her grave. She had to diagram that sentence. She would just kill me. But you know, I thought it always just was so humbling to be able to speak to a wonder like lillian and tanzania have a conversation that's so filled with love in itself and education and inspiration A to be able to have done it at all, and then B to know that, yeah, tanzania, upstate New York, we're just humans, we're all the same animal.

Speaker 2:

That's it.

Speaker 1:

I mean, I feel a kinship with you because not only from just time spending traveling, where I think opens up your eyes to this but Becky and I, this is like our 600th episode, and the people we are at the beginning to where we're at now, of just walking in open-handed to conversations like you, can't not be changed by that. And you got to think like what a superpower that I left on my on the table for too long of my life, of not just getting in dialogue with people about what are their pains, what are their dreams, what are their hopes, like, um, there's such a connectedness when we get below the surface and I love that you're lifting that, because we feel that too in our conversations.

Speaker 3:

And you can do it at the store. Do you know? We just forget. We all have shared humanity.

Speaker 2:

Everywhere we go, it's whether we choose to lean in, and it always makes the day better.

Speaker 3:

My sweet husband is aces at that and always is my reminder because I'll get on my telephone or I'll like be messing with my dog, or you know whatever, I'll tune out. It's New York, I'm a New Yorker, but he, you know, we have the most wonderful adventures because he's going to speak to the person beside us or in front of us or, you know, ask a question that I did wonder but would never have broken the barrier. But then, then that's when the magic happens.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I agree, and, pedro, that's the second time she said something kind about you, so just know she's speaking real big love about you.

Speaker 3:

Or I'm having to dig out of a big hole. It's one or the other.

Speaker 2:

We'll let you guys work that out dick out of a big hole.

Speaker 1:

It's one or the other. I mean, we want to talk about advocacy in this conversation too, so I wonder if you'd table set that by like, what are some of the challenges that you have been awakened to in these conversations? Like, what are some of the triumphs and maybe challenges, because we do want to be global citizens and be aware of what our friends and our neighbors are experiencing, and there are things from those conversations that you're like man, this is a universal challenge that I think most people are not aware of, that you could lift.

Speaker 3:

Not aware of is the only part of that question that I think people are more aware than we realize, aware than we realize.

Speaker 3:

So I'm not sure that I have any secrets to reveal about what is needed in this world like kindness and love and equity and access to the marketplace and sometimes just being remembered or just being respected as a human.

Speaker 3:

But I think through this lens, particularly with everyone that I have spoken to for the podcast, gender equity is still just a there's just a grievous discrepancy and that plays out in access too. I think first and foremost about how women in Tanzania, for example, you can't and so many other places you can't get a loan if you're a woman without a man signing for it. So many of the village savings and loans, success stories, personal transformations all of that have just come out of just giving women access, just access, and it's access to their own money, that they come together and share and support each other's dreams and get a little back and then support my dreams and we all go and we take our turns. But it's not having institutional support, having to create that for yourself, or access to education, a woman's access to education, hygiene, healthcare, but again, I say, it's not like I'm revealing any secrets at all when I talk about that.

Speaker 3:

But, I think what we were just talking about, oddly, is also the other side of the coin is people who are privileged to be safe and have enough and be connected. People forgetting or feeling friction against engaging. People forgetting or feeling friction against engaging I think that's the other non-secret secret is just that we all do make a difference and our engagement does make a difference. You think you don't matter or somebody else will handle it, or how much can I help? Every bit aggregates and more than ever, I feel like it is time to reach a handout in every direction, just if only to clasp it in support of a brother, a sister, a stranger. More than ever, I think we have to not be walking down the street messing with our dog and on our phone. More than than ever, we need to pay attention to the person who's walking beside us. And you know, they always say you can't know what somebody else is going through, but you can if you ask.

Speaker 2:

I just think there are some themes here that have resonance and I don't care who you are, what your lived experience is, where you are in the world. I think this accessibility piece is such a barrier for so many people, whether it's accessibility to education or to economic stability I mean I think about. John has three daughters, I have two daughters. It's like this issue for the world that we're setting up for our girls and for all of our kids. We want them to navigate through a kinder, more just and humane world, and it's like if we as adults can go back to that and figure out and kind of look around and say where is my agency? What do I have? Do I have access to power? Do I have access to funding? Do I have access to a network who could've ever had?

Speaker 2:

And I feel like Kevin Adler talked about this when he came onto the podcast with Miracle Messages and he said we are literally in relational poverty right now and a way that we can come together is by helping one another.

Speaker 2:

It's going to heal us, it's going to heal the person on the back end, and so I really feel like you're onto something, bellamy, and I keep hearing this like activation component to it and I thank you for just talking about your agency and feeling like you kind of felt yourself standing on the sidelines and didn't want to ruffle feathers but when you stepped up into that work to ruffle feathers but when you stepped up into that work, I want you to talk about the shift that you felt when you chose to kind of lean in whether that's in your hurricane recovery efforts in Asheville to reproductive justice, which I am also a very big proponent of. Talk to our audience about that and what would you share to someone who's feeling that nudge to kind of step forward but has felt very much pulled back in it for most of their life? I?

Speaker 3:

would, of course, encourage them to delight in that impulse they're feeling and to follow it, to hear. I mean, I've been meditating too, because my brain is so loud. It's just so loud, but my heart has a lot more sense. My brain is like I know everything, and my brain is so loud, it's just so loud, but my heart has a lot more sense. You know, my brain is like I know everything and my brain is like no, so like, meditation always gets a clearer answer for me. So if someone has the impulse, but like a bit of paralysis around what direction to go in, I always feel like your heart knows the answer. I always feel like your heart knows the answer. And there is abundant need in all directions for your gift and what you can do. And it's in you for a reason, and it's, you know, somewhere between silly and against divine grace to not let what's inside you out.

Speaker 3:

I will also say that for people that are natured like me, which is nervous about everything and overthinking and afraid to ruffle feathers, it's not gotten easier for me. It is just remains rewarding. It is the thing that gives me the deepest joy. Ironically, even though I get nervous about you know, somebody can be mad at me, or you know we have we're. You know the winds are changing and so you know is this, you know, is this okay to say or is that okay to do?

Speaker 3:

But again, I just keep coming back to my heart, and my heart knows what I'm here for, just like, in what way to be of service.

Speaker 3:

And so I try to be humble and do what my heart tells me and always, at the end of the day, if those are the footsteps I've walked in, I'm just overwhelmed with gratitude that I got to be alive today and be of service and maybe help a little like I. You know, no one gets out alive. So I want to, I want to. I want my time here to be useful, I want it to be good for something and I love acting and it is so much fun. And when I have a job like that too, oh, I thrill and I delight. And also in the wee hours of the night, it's when I've spent a day having a conversation like this or gotten to lift up the work that, uh, care or a woman involved with care has done, or any kind of advocacy. Those are the, those are the nights that I feel the warmest and the calmest and the calmest, and the clearest and the most grateful.

Speaker 2:

Okay, you know, john, that this listening audience is feeling all kinds of jelly for care. They're feeling so jealous that care gets to work with Bellamy. Because I do think what you were saying is we talked about this a lot last year in know, in terms of like, how we can scale influence and impact and how do you find people to amplify and their influence? And I think that you're doing it with such conviction and you're going back to your values as the grounding point for how you align and connect and act. And it is straight from the center. And please, nonprofits, go find a Bellamy type someone to amplify your mission. And I know there's only one of you. But I do think that you are lifting a bigger conversation for care for women, for girls, for equality. It's not just in this one lane. I really am excited about this podcast because I feel like it's going to add tentacles in a lot of different areas.

Speaker 3:

I really hope. I hope people listen and enjoy and get the the feel, all the feels that I feel. So and and and, at the end of the day, remember that they can also be agents of change. Right, like it's incredible what these women have done. It's incredible what care does every day all around the globe, and also we can all do it in our own ways, every moment of every day.

Speaker 2:

It's a choice we have.

Speaker 3:

Becky and I are nominating ourselves as fan club president and vice president. Yeah, Oklahoma chapter.

Speaker 2:

I got it right here.

Speaker 3:

I got Oklahoma and I've got the road.

Speaker 2:

Let's do this. You've got South Carolina this week, so it's great.

Speaker 1:

My friend. I have a question what inspires you? I mean you have got a lot of passions. Where do you really find inspiration in this moment?

Speaker 3:

What melts me, like undoes me, is kindness. It can happen anywhere, anytime. Just people being kind to people. That's really. I wish it were something more interesting or had a better story, but that is true and that's always been true, Even as a kid. Like watching commercials or something, I am that I will cry If someone is doing some kindness in a commercial.

Speaker 2:

I will be like Procter Gamble, the Olympic commercials every time.

Speaker 3:

Or does Used to be Coke Coca-Cola? Yes, of course, time it used to be Coke Coca-Cola. But even like somebody helping somebody get their bag down the subway stairs, you know like it just makes me feel like it might be okay. You know that we might make it through because we're connecting with each other. It's everything.

Speaker 2:

It's everything to me. Yeah, I'm a big proponent of people being just kind and I love that we're connected on this love of storytelling that we have, and I want to give you the mic and ask you about a time when philanthropy, kindness, maybe generosity, where you had a moment in your life where philanthropy or kindness came in and it just profoundly changed you. Can you share a story of a time?

Speaker 3:

that's happened. Oh yeah, no, I surely can. I mean, I can share. We can be here forever. How long have we got?

Speaker 2:

Eight hours. Let's go, this will be great. Let's do it. Order pizza everybody. We're going to do this.

Speaker 3:

We're going deep. How great would that be if we did like a kindness telethon.

Speaker 2:

I'm sort of looking forward to that From your lips. Sidebar To like yes thunder come find us.

Speaker 3:

We would love to do that. I am I. The one that pops immediately into my head is I was very lucky to go to Yale. I thought I was going to be a physics major. It turns out I'm not that good at physics but, uh, I was English in theater and it was all good and I had a great time. And you know, they meet demonstrated financial needs, so I was able to go and cause my mom my dad is dead at that point. My mom was the high school English teacher and thank you.

Speaker 1:

And um you know.

Speaker 3:

I'm just like a kid and finishing college and it's all you know. I'm like, okay, well, the great abyss. What's next? I get this letter from the bursar's office. Bursar is like the person in charge of the money at a fine at a college and uh, I'm like, oh God, god, what, this can't be good. I open it up and it's it says below please find the name of the person who paid for your education. If you know, you want to write him a thank you note or something. And they just had never, never. I mean, I was so grateful to be there, obviously, but Yale's a wealthy institution and I sort of thought they just have like a big pool of money that someone stirs with a big stick and some of it goes one direction and some of it goes another Screws you a duck Like.

Speaker 2:

isn't everybody diving into the gold coins? Thank you so much.

Speaker 3:

I'm so in one sink with you. But it wasn't. It was a man named Dr Richard Light and he lived in Kalamazoo. He had been a surgeon and a cartographer and a pilot and had gone to school there before me, a long time before me, and I just I mean, I just stood straight still because he didn't know me. He changed my whole life, Like he opened the world to me. He opened my mind and I got a national tour straight out of college and we actually played Kalamazoo because it wasn't the best national tour.

Speaker 3:

And um, and I met him. He was 93 when I met him and I got to like hug him and he came to the show and I like vowed that if I ever could I would try and do that for somebody and Scandal, let me do that for somebody too. So now, like some I can't pay for, like I think he paid for everything I pay for part of somebody's college every year bellamy, and his name is literally dr light come on, can you?

Speaker 3:

yeah, I swear, I did not make this up. This is 100 the truth, dr richard light kalamazoo google him, man.

Speaker 2:

That is why we asked this question story we can all be lit up and grateful.

Speaker 3:

Cause we have. We're all blessed in so many ways that we don't even think to wonder about you know, I was just like happy enough to be a college, but it was like a human. I was there cause a human helped me be there. I don't know it, just he, just he's always in my heart.

Speaker 1:

Okay, that one will stick with us as well, my friend. Thank you for that.

Speaker 3:

As we start to round out, we have kind of a tradition we ask for a one good thing that you can tell our audience today. That could be like a secret to success. It could tie to this or just going to say it oh my God, the buildup. Don't be afraid to ask questions, like I tried to. I always try to be prepared and I try to. You know, I'm the daughter of an English teacher and I want to do it right, prepared, and I try to. You know, I'm the daughter of an English teacher and I want to do it right.

Speaker 3:

And so I think for a long time I thought if you ask a question, they'd know you weren't prepared or you didn't know everything. And there's like so few subjects that are finite enough to know everything about anyway, but you can never know anybody else's experience or their feelings about us, even if they're, even if the subject is finite. But so I think that's that's what I just as I was thinking, cause I was, I've been so looking forward to coming on your podcast. I knew that was a question and I that's what I just kept coming back to Like don't assume anything. Always be like lead with curiosity, don't ever be afraid to ask a question because you're going to get such more wonderful information than you think you already know. So that, and floss, floss, obviously that's floss, floss your teeth, it's important.

Speaker 2:

Just floss them. Okay, philosophical and practical, we're getting to the biological, which is so good, I do think curiosity yields compassion. Curiosity yields deeper connection. It's a part of our evolution as humans and I just think curiosity is so kind. It is so kind and people love to talk about themselves, they love to tell their stories, so why not just ask and see what would happen? And also, john, like Mellie knows our podcast. Can we like, pinch ourselves with that too? Like?

Speaker 1:

I know.

Speaker 2:

Okay, but practically speaking, we really want people to go and check out this new podcast series. We are huge proponents of ethical storytelling, of allowing agency for people to tell their own story, so we're definitely going to link the podcast series in the episodes description so everyone can subscribe and join you on this journey, but also tell us how they can connect with CARE or keep up with the work you're doing.

Speaker 3:

Tell us all the things. Yes, oh, my goodness. Well, follow CARE on all the platforms because they do a great job of storytelling and small bite size so we can always keep up with what's going on. You can, of course, go to careorg slash, see leads, to find out more about the podcast and sign up for their newsletter so they can, you know, send you information when you need it, donate if you want it, if you can, you know, do all the things be a part of, be a part of the love. I really do think it's. You know, we almost called the podcast, uh, when we care cause I think that's the bottom line when we care, like change is possible. So just become, be a part of it, or be a part of change and caring in any way you can or are drawn to.

Speaker 1:

I think we're here for the spinoff already.

Speaker 2:

I mean let's go ahead.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I'm like let's do it, Bellamy. I mean, you made us laugh Like we're literally crying, holding back tears over here. You're amazing. Thank you for being part of this. Thank you, CARE, for having the vision to say yes whenever you have an incredible donor, supporter, believer.

Speaker 2:

Yes.

Speaker 1:

Comes in with an idea too. This is the kind of evolved way that we show up for our missions, to spread our stories, like you're doing it. So thank you, my friend, and media scales impact.

Speaker 2:

The more we share these stories, the more people find us, and I just hope, if this has affected you in some way, listener, go do something about it. Like, if you're not going to follow care or go check that out, I totally think you should, and I think you should listen to this podcast series. Do something kind for somebody like let's watch this ripple, keep going and let's not wait for other people to start it. Like, let's be the change, let's go, bellamy, keep rocking this lifetime.

Speaker 3:

You guys. I'm so grateful. I'm a fan right back. Thank you for having me on. Thank you for what 600 and how many 600 and what that makes such a difference. I'm so grateful, so thank you for having me on.

Speaker 2:

It's such an honor. You're amazing.