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Hello everyone and welcome to the within range coaching podcast with Ranger.

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I'm Ranger certified holistic success coach and in this podcast I'm breaking down the

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journey that entrepreneurs face as they start their organization, find solutions and create

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an impact that lasts.

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So if you're an entrepreneur, nonprofit leader or purpose driven community member that wants

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to learn how to make an impact in their home, community and world, then this is the podcast

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for you.

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I know you're just as eager as I am to get started.

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So let's get right into it.

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Good morning, good afternoon and good evening everybody.

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This is your host Ranger and today I'm joined by very special guests.

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As most of you know, I am starting my walk across the country here in just a couple of

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weeks.

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And during that walk, I'm going to be raising some money for a few different organizations

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along with help from the wander projects.

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And today I have a guest from one of those organizations.

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Today we are joined by Rachel Arnold and I mean, I could list off all the accolades that

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she has and what she's done for Grace hospice and the hospice promise foundation, but I'm

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going to let her jump right in and introduce herself.

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Rachel, how are you doing today?

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I'm doing great.

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Thank you so much for having me on and for such a great introduction.

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That was absolutely wonderful.

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I very much appreciate it.

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I'm very excited.

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Great.

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No, that's great to hear.

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I'm also excited to kind of get to chitter chat with you and have you kind of showcase

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your organization and who you are.

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So to just kind of jump straight into it, how is it that you'd like to be known?

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Tell us about yourself.

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Yeah.

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So I'm Rachel Arnold and I am the masters of health administration.

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I'm the executive director for Grace hospice here in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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I've been in hospice for a little over five years now and certified hospice manager working

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towards my certified hospice administrator.

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And I've been very blessed to be able to be a part of this organization here in Tulsa

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for about a year and a half.

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And have we've done some really great things in that in such a little amount of time that

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I'm excited to share.

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Awesome.

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That's great to hear.

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And our little conversations we had before the podcast, I know that you said that you

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kind of fell into hospice on accident.

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Can you kind of explain what that journey from, I guess, that pre hospice life to where

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you are now, how that kind of happened?

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Yeah, so I did.

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I don't think a lot of people get into hospice right out of college.

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A lot of people don't go out of college and say, you know, I really think that I want

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to do hospice, that I want to deal with death and dying every day.

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Most places don't even teach about hospice or what it can do or what you can do inside

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of hospice.

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So I was actually I went into management.

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I did a little bit of interior design and then went into I.T.

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I am not an I.T. professional.

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I was in management.

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I do not claim to know anything about electronics, but I was doing management and my best friend

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at the time, my mentor, was working in hospice as a marketing executive and said, hey, this

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position has come up and you've got it.

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You've got to do this.

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This is just perfect for you.

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And I said, yeah, I don't know about that.

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And she said, no, it's perfect for you.

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I promise.

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So I kind of sat on it and I thought about it.

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And by the time I really got around to even, you know, thinking through the possibilities,

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the position had closed.

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But about a year later, the position opens up again.

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And she says, I'm telling you, it closed because you weren't in this role.

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You've got to be in this role.

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So I was like, OK, I'm in a different place than I was a year ago.

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Let me try it out.

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So I went in for an interview.

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And at the time, it was some of our executives from our Louisiana branch that had come up

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and were interviewing for the position.

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I remember going into the interview and just thinking, you know, this is just so crazy

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that I'm even taking this.

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I've been in my job for over five years.

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how it took care of patients and families.

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And I just remember sinking down into my chair and going, oh, no, I really like this place

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and I really like these people now.

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So I left that interview like not even wanting the new job and not even not even thinking

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that this was going to be a possibility.

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What do I didn't know about health care?

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I'm in I.T. What am I doing?

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And I left and they called me back and they're like, hey, we just wanted to let you know,

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like it went really well and we really like you.

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We'd want to bring you back in for a second interview.

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And I'm like, I really want a second interview, too.

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So I ended up doing a second interview.

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of them was just more genuine and better than the last.

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And just like, wow, these people clearly are in this for the right reason.

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And so I said, you know, I I don't know what I'm doing, but I think that this is what I

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want to do.

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So I ended up taking the position.

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And some days I still don't feel as though I know what I'm doing.

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But I will always stand by the fact that this is where I belong, that hospice is a calling

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point.

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Again, none of us come out of college going, I want to do hospice.

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But the people who are brought here and that tend to make careers out of it really have

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a heart for people, really have a heart for hospice.

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difference in what I do.

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Yeah, Rachel, thank you.

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Thank you for sharing all of that.

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And what's coming up for me as I'm hearing that story just has a lot to do with like

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there's a certain feeling that came up for you that was really solidifying a conviction

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in something.

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And I'm curious, like when you're having that interview and you had all these doubts

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of, I don't know if this is even right for me, like something some voice in your head

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was saying, no, this is it.

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Do it.

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Like, what was that like for you?

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Well, it was terrifying.

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Medical as a whole is this big, huge kind of scary organization.

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And for someone who's not in medical and really I had no desire to be in medical, it was scary

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to lead people who are clinicians to, you know, from doctors to nurse practitioners,

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LPN, AIDS, RNs, therapists, all of it, knowing that I'm going to come in and I'm going to

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be a manager in this organization with all of these people, with all of this tenure,

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who have all of these years of schooling, who know so much more than me.

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What am I doing?

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some of the most heavy medical stuff you'll deal with.

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I think every part in the medical community, everybody plays a different part in it.

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You know, you've got your ER trauma doctors, you have your pediatricians, you have your

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hospice, you have your rehab, and each person plays a different part in people's lives as

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they go throughout their lives and through their medical journeys.

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And it was just very, very scary thinking that I'm going to come in and lead these people

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who are making such a huge impact in other people's lives.

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But, you know, I had right after I had, right before I had taken this position, I had just

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given birth to my first and only child.

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and wanting to do something more with their lives.

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And that was kind of where I was at was knowing that I wanted to be able to give back and

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I'm not going to be able to do that through traditional care, you know, hands-on patient

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care, but that I could do it through supporting those who did have that hands-on patient care.

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You should do that second interview.

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You should do that third interview.

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I think it was just that desire in me to make a difference in a unique way, in a more hands-off

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And that's something else I was going to kind of reflect back in that it sounds like the

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healthcare industry isn't exactly your first choice, but it's more so about supporting

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those that are out there, like kind of like the front field runners, the first line, the

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ER, the trauma doctors, the therapists, the counselors.

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frontline work.

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It is.

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It is.

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I have said throughout my career in healthcare, you know, I'm not a clinician.

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I'm not a clinician.

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Now surprisingly, you do learn a lot just by being in such close proximity to clinicians.

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I have seen things and heard things that I just never, never thought that I would be

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exposed to.

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But yeah, for me, it's being able to be in healthcare to make a difference in patients'

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lives and having that hands-off approach.

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There are so many things that go on behind the scenes of any clinic or hospital or hospice

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or palliative or home health.

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There's so many things that go on behind the scenes that no one ever sees.

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And to be able to support these people who give their time and their talent, first of

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all, but their souls to these patients.

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Hospice is a hard job.

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And so for me, being able to support them, to keep them going through their days, to

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fill their cup up so that they can give back to patients and their families, that's a huge

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role for me to be able to play that I just didn't really ever think was a possibility.

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I didn't know that it was a career that was out there.

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And it's been a very, very rewarding and enriching thing for me and for the other people who

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are kind of back supporters to the front lines.

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We all have that in common that we fill ourselves up so that we can fill up others.

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We've been blessed so that we can bless others.

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And that's what we do every day is keep those people going so that they can keep those families

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going so that they can be supports in others' lives.

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It's just a very unique thing.

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It's the cup, being the cup filler of the people that fill the cups of others.

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It's like going back in that care process to make sure that everybody has the tools

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they need, whether it's physical tools or that mental, emotional, psychological needs

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are met.

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Because I can only imagine the kinds of things that you and your team see in hospice.

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And I did kind of want to take a step back.

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And if you could just kind of explain a little bit more of what hospice care actually looks

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like.

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Because I know that's something you've mentioned in our pre-talk a little bit about is being

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able to explain the difference of what hospice is, what it isn't.

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So could you just kind of go on a little, I guess, spiel about what hospice actually

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looks like?

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So I think a lot of people have this idea in their heads of what hospice is.

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And it's grandma is old and she is dying.

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to be dead soon.

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hospice is.

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And that's just so far from the truth.

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And that's why I love what I do, because I also get to educate on this.

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This is the new hospice.

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This is what hospice really is.

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And so hospice is actually a service provided.

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And it's provided at what we call end of life care.

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to seek a cure for that or a cure is not available, that's where hospice steps in.

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And hospice says, we can help.

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We will help make you comfortable.

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We will help you make arrangements.

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We will help make your family comfortable with your disease and with the things that

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are going to happen next will basically be a support team for everything that you will

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need for the next week, three months, six months, nine months, one year, two years,

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whatever it may be.

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So to be on hospice, you have to have two things.

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You have to be eligible for hospice, which means you have to have a prognosis of six

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months or less, assuming that the disease takes its normal course.

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So with some people, the disease that they have, let's say it's cancer.

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Your doctor says you have six months left to live.

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For some people, that may be two full years.

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It runs its course in different people in different ways.

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And then you also have to want hospice.

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So that's really it.

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It's not a huge formal process.

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It's not going to attorneys or anything like that.

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It's just you need it and you want it.

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Hospice steps in and we provide your nurse.

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We provide a chaplain, a social worker, volunteers.

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And we can do a lot of things that other places can't.

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Each hospice has their own kind of set of we can do this and we can do this and we can

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service this area.

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You don't have to give up your physician.

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You don't have to sign a do not resuscitate.

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You don't have to be willing to say, oh, I'm I'm ready to die.

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I'm 100 percent ready to die.

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Ready to go.

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You don't have to be ready to die.

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We're not here for for all of that.

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We're here to make you comfortable.

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We're here to make sure you're not in pain.

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We're here to help you deal with family dynamics.

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We'll even let you have some of the treatments that other places won't let you have.

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You don't have to stop chemo radiation dialysis just because you're on hospice.

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They do have to be palliative in nature rather than curative.

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But if those treatments make you feel good and can help give you quality time with your

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family, we are all about allowing you to do those treatments and we will stand with you

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hand in hand beside you while you're doing that.

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We'll coordinate with funeral homes.

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We'll coordinate with your family members.

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We've had nurses who have done face to faces on FaceTime with brothers who live in another

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country, you know, trying to get them to, you know, see their their their brother for

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the last time or, you know, arranging travel so that they can come see them and help take

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care of them.

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It's a full spiritual, emotional and physical journey that we will go with you and your

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family for as long as it takes for as long as you're eligible and you still want hospice

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to be here for you.

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So it's more than just we're going to give you a medication and that's it.

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You know, we're going to be there for everything.

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We're going to be there to wash your hair, braise your hair, paint your nails, help you

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put your Christmas tree up.

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We want you to get to Christmas because we want you to be able to spend that time with

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your family.

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It's also about the spiritual needs, you know, do you have unfinished business?

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Is there something we can help with there?

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We can help put you in touch with different things, you know, different people in the

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communities.

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We can help arrange wheels on wheels and haircuts.

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And as the disease progresses, we can be there for those things as well.

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We can be there for you to help get you a hospital bed and to get you the oxygen that

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you need and the medications that you need.

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And we'll deliver them right to your door so that you don't have to worry about going

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out.

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We'll coordinate with your physician so that you don't have to make these appointments

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in the middle of winter and, you know, deal with the weather and all of the other things

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that you're going to encounter, all of the germs that you encounter, you know, we want

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to keep you home too and comfortable so that you don't have to go to the ER.

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We can take care of you in your home where you're most comfortable, where you want to

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be surrounded by your family and friends.

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And then at the end of life, at those last couple of days or weeks or moments, we're

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there to hold your hand and hold the family's hands and say, you know, here's what's about

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to happen.

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Here's some education on what to expect next.

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And you know, as soon as that moment does happen, call us and we'll be there for you

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no matter what time of day or night it is.

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We'll be there.

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We'll make sure that your loved one looks beautiful.

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We'll make sure that you've gotten everything picked up and taken care of.

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We love to be able to go to the funerals of our patients, be able to say goodbye to the

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families.

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And then we also offer bereavement services that are available for 13 months after that

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patient passes because grief doesn't stop once the funeral happens.

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It goes on for a while.

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And so we're able to really just take over for families so that families can be families

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and be together and not have to worry about, did they get this pill and did they make this

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appointment and do they need this?

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And we do all of that for them so that they can just spend time together.

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Yeah, Rachel.

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And I think that's interesting because when I mean, like you were kind of saying earlier,

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when I first heard about hospice care, it sounded very like clinical and mechanical.

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Like you're saying grandma's on the brink of death, like it's coming.

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How do we make her comfortable?

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How do we get her her meds?

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And then that's kind of it.

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But what I'm really hearing you say is that it's from that diagnosis that you have this

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amount of time left to live, this is the diagnosis, this is what's going on.

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That's really when you and your and the individual wants care or the family wants care and assistance.

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That's when you guys come in.

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And it sounds like it's a lot more of a full service system than just the very basics.

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And I think that's what's most admirable there is that it's not just the progression.

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It's really filling up that life all around the Christmas trees, the communication facilitating,

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I guess, those final wishes and even being there for the family after.

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I think it's so important for people to hear that hospice care isn't just for the individual

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that's going through that end of life period.

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It's for all of those that are involved.

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And I think that's so special and just needed in that situation.

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And that's a great point to bring up, too, is that it's, you know, we're here obviously

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for the patient, but part of the patient is their family.

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And it may be that their family is their dogs or their cats or their fish or that it's their

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home or or that it is, you know, a large group of people that are surrounding them.

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And we do we take care of them all.

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We find placement for pets and we feed their fish.

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And, you know, we we we feed the souls of their loved ones because it you know, once

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you've gotten that that word from the doctor that, hey, there's there's no treatment or

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treatment is going to do more harm than good.

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It's about the time left.

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It's about making the time left quality time with those that you love in the place that

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you want to be doing what you want to do.

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Yeah, and it's just like you were saying, it's really about giving them that quality

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time.

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And I mean, when I was doing my financial coach training, just the idea of, you know,

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life insurance and having these conversations with loved ones before they reach that point,

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it takes the stress off of the situation to really let you focus on what's most important.

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Like, we don't need to worry about the Christmas lights getting up.

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We don't need to worry about how we're going to get to the hospital for these appointments.

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We can because Grace Hospice is here, but we can focus on spending time with our loved

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one on making those final moments really memorable without that extra baggage and stress of all

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the other things that are going on.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Absolutely.

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Yeah, and just to kind of start moving in terms of the Hospice Promise Foundation.

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So Grace Hospice is the, correct me if I'm wrong, is the organization that does the work.

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They're the one, the boots on the ground, your team that go out and make the magic happen.

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And of course, for my walk, I'm raising money for the Hospice Promise Foundation.

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How does the foundation tie in with the Grace Hospice entity?

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Yeah, so and that's a great analogy.

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So Grace Hospice is boots on the ground, providing those services, the clinical services, the

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medication management, all of that.

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And behind Grace Hospice is the Hospice Promise Foundation that is allowing us to do what

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we call LONYOP.

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It is a funny word that comes out of Louisiana, which is where our home company is based out

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of.

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LONYOP means to go the extra mile to do something that is unexpected or to give a gift that's

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unexpected.

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So our Hospice Promise Foundation allows us to go one step further in the care that we're

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providing.

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And the great thing about it is the money that we get here at Grace goes towards the

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Grace Hospice Promise Foundation.

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So it goes straight back into the communities and the patients that we serve.

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And it goes to provide non-medical items for our patients and their families.

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So rent assistance, grocery assistance, we've helped pay for funeral arrangements.

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They're very, very expensive.

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And if it's something that you are not planning for or something that it's unexpected, our

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Promise Foundation can help to offset some of those expenses.

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And we are able through the Promise Foundation to do some really, really cool things as well,

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like grant final wishes and make some dreams happen towards the end of life.

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So it's a really cool extension of the care that we're able to give here through Grace

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Hospice.

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Yeah.

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And I think that's such an interesting point that it's the non-medical parts of the life.

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And that's where the rent, the groceries, the final wishes.

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And I was just curious, are there final wishes?

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What have you guys done adding that magic to these people's lives at the end of it?

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Do you have any specific examples of things you guys have been able to do that are out

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of the ordinary or very special?

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Yeah.

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So one of the other organizations that I worked through, through LHC Group, through the Promise

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Foundation, we had one specific incident that kind of sticks out in my mind.

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And this is going to sound absolutely silly.

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But you have to put yourself kind of in that mind space.

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So we had a patient on service who was a biker, spent his whole life as a biker with his motorcycles,

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long hair, long beard, kind of rough and tumble guy.

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And he had told us that he had these last wishes.

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And so he wanted to ride his bike again, of course.

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And then he wanted to go to Hooters and have a beer.

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And we just thought, well, that's simple enough.

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Like, why not?

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So we couldn't get him on a motorcycle, but we were able to get him in a slingshot.

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And we took him to Hooters and his doctor said, absolutely, go for it.

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Have a beer.

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So we have all of these pictures of him with these girls, just huge grin on this old man's

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face.

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He just, you know, that was something that he was used to doing and he got to do it again.

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And it just absolutely made him so incredibly happy.

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There was another incident where we had a younger guy on service and he was in his young early

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twenties.

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And he said he had never been on a train or on a plane.

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And the Hospice Promise Foundation was able to work with the community and we were able

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to get him up in a plane and we were able to get him on a train that went through Arkansas

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and it was a beautiful time of year where all of the foliage had turned.

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And so he was able to take that ride with one of his best friends.

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And so the Promise Foundation is able to do these really neat things through community

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involvement as well to make these wishes come true as big and grandiose as they can be or

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as small as just, you know, a trip down to Hooters.

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That's so funny.

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That's so interesting.

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I think that's also just such a great wrap up to the conversation.

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Like it doesn't have to be like you were saying, this grandiose, big, crazy thing.

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It's really about those simple moments, those trips down to Hooters, that beer with friends,

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that trip with a friend.

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And I don't know why I'm so stuck on the idea of you guys helping with the Christmas tree,

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but just those celebrations in life that are so easily taken for granted that are so special.

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And I mean, that's why I'm so excited to be supporting you guys.

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And I'm glad that we were able to kind of talk on the podcast for a little bit for you

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to really just share hospice is more than just the basics.

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It's it's about, I guess, maybe just sticking with that Christmas tree analogy.

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It's not just putting up the tree.

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It's putting everything on it that makes the tree so beautiful, helping with with rent,

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helping with groceries, helping make those wishes come true, really just brings it to

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the forefront of.

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We are here to support you, your family from here to the end and beyond.

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So I just want to acknowledge you for your work there.

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And thank you so much for for everything that you do.

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And yeah, I think that's fantastic.

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Yeah.

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And that was a great way to sum it up.

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That's exactly that's exactly what we do.

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Awesome, Rachel.

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Well, thank you so much for taking the time to talk with us today in terms of getting

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in contact with Hospice Promise and Grace Hospice.

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You guys are located specifically in Oklahoma.

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How can people donate directly to you guys or work specifically with you if they're within

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range of your guys' service area?

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Yeah.

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So Grace Hospice is actually a part of LHC group out of Lafayette, Louisiana.

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We have offices in almost every state, which is absolutely amazing.

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If you are here in Tulsa or the surrounding areas, we actually will service a 50 mile

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radius from Tulsa.

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So we go all the way up to almost the Kansas state line and we go all the way down to Henrietta.

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If you're not from here, that doesn't mean anything to you.

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But we service a 50 mile radius.

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There are agencies all over the country and not just LHC group, but hospice in general.

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If you are looking to refer to Grace, you can always give our office a call.

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If you're wanting to volunteer, we are always accepting volunteers.

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We have volunteers who work directly with patients, reading to them, singing to them,

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painting nails, combing their hair.

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And we also have volunteers who work here in the office making calls, doing administrative

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work, that kind of thing.

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Or if you're looking to donate money, that is also something that you can find on our

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website, on our Facebook page, or to call here in the office and we can give you more

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information on that.

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Wonderful.

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And I'll be putting all that information down in the show notes so people can follow you

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on social media, check out the website, donate directly to you or to my fundraiser.

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But Rachel, thank you again so much for your time and everything that you guys do.

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I'm so excited to be supporting you and I'm excited to see all the fun wows and final

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wishes and everything else you guys are able to grant.

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So thank you so much for your time.

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Thank you.

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Thank you so much.

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We're so excited to partner with you on this opportunity.

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Perfect.

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All right, everybody.

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Thank you so much for spending your time and investing a little piece of your day with

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us here today.

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Down in the show notes, I'm going to have all the information about Grace Hospice, the

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hospice promise and everything else that Rachel and I talked about that may be interesting

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to you.

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I also put a couple of freebies down in the description so you can see what's going on

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and you can start your journey towards building a life worth remembering.

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Thank you again for all of your time and remember to have fun, stay safe and be yourself.

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I'll see you all next week.

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Bye.