On today's episode, I'm honored to talk with and feature Dr. Enid Campos a compassionate advocate and devoted wife and mother turned CEO of the Center Clinic. Her unwavering commitment to underserved communities shines through her work with organizations like the Rochester Healthy Community Partnership (RHCP), Cuida tu Mente and La Nueva Esperanza. Prepare to be inspired by her remarkable journey and the things she and her team of volunteers are doing to change the world.
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On today's episode, I'm honored to talk with and feature Dr. Enid Campos a compassionate advocate and devoted wife and mother turned CEO of the Center Clinic. Her unwavering commitment to underserved communities shines through her work with organizations like the Rochester Healthy Community Partnership (RHCP), Cuida tu Mente and La Nueva Esperanza. Prepare to be inspired by her remarkable journey and the things she and her team of volunteers are doing to change the world.
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Good afternoon and welcome to everybody. The podcast which shares stories that highlight people in life, that make the world an interesting place, which ultimately ties us all together in unique and wonderful ways. And who am I, you might ask. I would be the headwrapped socialite Weith mom, micro-influencer in the fashion and etiquette world. But on this podcast I will be introducing you to some people who I've had the opportunity to meet along my journey, who have helped enrich me in my life in beautiful ways and who I hope will do the same in your life.
Speaker 1:Today, dear listeners, I introduce you to my friend Enid, a remarkable soul who is compassionate, a woman who is definitely an inspiration to many, an advocate to those within our community who are often underserved. She is a devoted wife, mother of four, a former psychiatrist and now CEO of the Center Clinic, which is nestled in Dodge Center, minnesota. Her involvement in organizations like the Rochester Healthy Community Partnership, cuida Tu Mente and La Nueva Esperanza is a testament to her commitment to elevating the health of the Latino community. I'm excited for today's conversation, prepared to be moved, inspired and reminded that the art of healing knows no bounds. So, dear listeners, I would like to introduce you to my friend Enid, who I affectionately refer to as E? E. Thank you for being here on today's episode. Can you tell the listeners a little bit about who you are? Oh?
Speaker 2:Trina, what a nice introduction. Very kind, make me very emotional for your kindness. It's a pleasure for me to sit here talking with you, have a discussion. How about life? Well, I'm Enid Campos. I am a wife, a mother of four boys.
Speaker 2:I was raised and born in Costa Rica, in the rural area. I am the oldest of three siblings. My parents they were a teacher. I was the only child for three years and a half. My mom she graduated when I was born as a teacher. My dad is already. He was a teacher but they went to the remote area for teaching. It was very interesting that they were in the village and my mom was in one village, my dad was in another village. So I stayed with my mom and my dad came up every three days. My mom was a teacher for the sixth grade and we live in that school. We have to travel by horse to get to the bigger city which is Nicoya. Coja is now one of the blue zones. I don't know if you hear about it. Please tell us more. The blue zones are the five regions in the world that people live longer. Nicoya is one of that in Costa Rica. We were living around that village for one year. And then my mom. She said I can't live anymore here because it's so difficult to get here. She ended up asking my grandpa, who was a musician, but he had a lot of connections with the politicians. So she asked please, daddy, help me with finding another school closer to the city where her family was. We move again I'm telling you that we move different areas in Guanagaste at that time and then we move again to another bigger city, and so on.
Speaker 2:When I finished my high school, when I was entering to the university, my parents decided to move to the capital. We start from the village and then a little bit bigger and then we went to the capital for me to study medicine. There I met my husband when I was doing the internship. My husband was doing the residency and then he was applying to come to the United States for training. At that time we were dating but I had to do my social service, which I went to another rural area which wasn't a hospital but only with maybe 25 beds. We have to deliver babies, we have to do small surgeries, little things, but it was a very good practice for us, for the new medical practitioners. Once a week we need to provide a service as a physician to the remote area, by horse too. They don't have clinic the little room that we have in the school we examine the patients there with the pap smear simple things for the kids which are kept kids blood pressure etc. But that gave me a different part of the world, even though I was facing poverty since I was growing up. But there being in charge of the health of that community was a big responsibility. I have to do something in my life at some point.
Speaker 2:When I finished my social service, my husband he was here, but we were engaged. We got married. He went to Costa Rica because he was doing his training, so we got married there the next day. We went for honeymoon for five days and then we came to the United States to live here, and zero English, I mean just the colors, and say hello and that's it. And then the same thing, but the thing I did with my parents when I was growing up moving different cities. So with my husband we moved different states. Every child was born in different states, four of them. The last one was born here in Arizona.
Speaker 1:Wow, when you tell the story, I think about what you shared with us, about your life, and how everything that we experienced kind of prepares us for something else. Exactly, you moved so much when you were younger and it was just something you had to do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no choice. And then I get married and the same thing, and I think that's why I'm very adaptive for different changes and different things I like to do. I struggle, as everybody, but for my parents it was very sad for me to go. Yeah, yeah, because I got married that day, the 28th, and then the 29th I was flying away from them and they moved with me when they entered into the university and then I'm the only daughter. Oh, yeah, because I have two youngest brothers. Two brothers, yeah, but they're the only girls. So they were sad really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they miss me a lot and at that time when we moved, 28 years ago, 20 years and a half to communicate by phone was very expensive and the salary that my husband as a resident was very, very low and, yeah, we don't have much money. So it was kind of a very difficult time but we survived. You mean it? Yeah, we survived. Yeah, we made it. What state did you move to first? First, it was Peoria in Illinois. Oh wow.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:He was doing his internship there in internal medicine. Actually, he proposed there because when I was doing my social service we were dating and I came with my mom to visit him. Of course my mom has to come with me.
Speaker 1:She didn't let me to come by myself.
Speaker 2:So she came with me. We spent like maybe a week there in Peoria and he proposed it was very, very romantic. And then three months later we got married and then I came here. The second I stayed we moved was Michigan and Felipe. He was born there After three years of marriage. Then we moved to Atlanta and Federico were born there.
Speaker 2:When Federico was eight days old, we moved back to Costa Rica because for good, because we have a J1 visa my husband. So when he was done with his training, he has more choices. We could be applied for another visa, but we don't want to do that. We want to return to our home country. So he was eight days old. Actually, he went back without passport because it was before 911. So not only with a card saying that he was born in Georgia and we were in his parents and, of course, a month later we took his passport in the embassy. So no problem at all. We spent four years there.
Speaker 2:I did my residency in psychiatry. So when you went back after you that's the idea I did psychiatry there for four years. After I finished my residency, I had a topic pregnancy which was erupted and I lost a lot of blood inside of my abdomen and I was in shock. I was thinking that I survived that. After that, I decided to take a break of my professionally, so I decided to take care of my two kids at a time. Felipe was five, federico was four because it was the year that they spent doing their residency there. My husband got offered to return to the United States, so we came back, how did you feel?
Speaker 1:Okay, so now we're going back to the US. What were your initial Initially?
Speaker 2:I was sad. I was really, really sad because I want to serve my community, I want to work there, but because I had that moment of almost dying, because it was really, really an emergency For minutes I will die. I say, okay, I have another chance to leave to be with my family, so I'm gonna take a break. Let's go to go back to the United States for two years. Let's go just for two years and just for them, because they were born here in the United States, they didn't know English at that time. Actually, they went to the German school in Costa Rica, so they don't know any English at that time. So I said it's an opportunity for us and for them to learn English. Let's go just for two years. So we went to Ohio and I had only one, two, but I got pregnant with Fernando in Ohio.
Speaker 1:That was good yeah.
Speaker 2:I think it was this indication that I need to. It is for something. Something happened. The things happened for a reason.
Speaker 2:When we were in Ohio, we built a house and we were settled. I said, okay, I like to raise a family, to be with my family, even though I was studying my own things about medicine, but I prioritized my family. And then my husband got an offer from Mayo Clinic and I said no way. No way because I went to return it to Costa Rica. I then went to go far north more snow, cold and he got an offer for email, I say, and he said I wanna go just to see what this looked like.
Speaker 2:I know we already know Rochessera at that time because we went to visit before when we were newly wets. He went, he came here and he called me and said I love it. He loved it, of course, and one of my best friend. I was standing here and I said well, you have to be where your husband is going to be happy. Yes, because you don't want your husband to be unhappy with everything. And he was happy in Ohio. I don't say that he was bad Looking or hearing his voice when he came here. He was all over the whole different level.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I said okay.
Speaker 2:So we came here to say, oh my gosh, how, how, ohio was nice, was 40 million people and here was very small. What about? My mom came with us to see the place. I and my mom she was like encouraged Rafa, this is an opportunity for you to grow, to learn to give the service. She was with him and she tried to persuade him, to persuade him yes, to say yes. Well, ended up here. Okay, we moved from Ohio again. So this is like our 10th move since we got married. Since we got married, it doesn't count when I was born, so I'm not gonna be moving. So when we arrived here, I love it, I like it, I like it very much. But Felipe and Federico were driving in the neighborhood Actually, we'll leave across the street there For the four months while we were building this house, and here they were biking and Fernando, he was a year old and he was looking through them to the window.
Speaker 2:I said, oh my God, Felipe was nine, federico was eight. I said this is a big difference. I think I have to have another baby. I said what did he say? And then I got pregnant. So the first child in Minnesota, when he was a year old, I said, oh my gosh God, I did For them, but what about me? Professionally? I was like I have to do. When he was a year old, I have to do something with my life because they are growing up, that's what we were talking about.
Speaker 1:They're just gonna be grown up.
Speaker 2:What about me? So I was my friend. She's a very, very I see. She's in my brain all the time. I remember her because she told me about the standard clinic. So I say, okay, I can volunteer there perfectly. It's 20 miles from here. It's not every day but it's very often, so I can give away something about me to the community. It is a totally volunteer job.
Speaker 2:So, I decided I went there, I reconnect, because this is the thing I wanted to do work with the community. So I was so happy. And these populations are very vulnerable and they come in the majority from Mexico's and South America. So I held there and submitted for 10 years. What do?
Speaker 1:you find to be some of the biggest challenges that you've experienced with patients who move into Dodge Center. What different things have you done to bridge or ease them into community there as far as health goes?
Speaker 2:I can tell more that this I'm doing right now. We're focusing education. We need to educate this community about health, prevent many illness or deal with the illness that do they have now. And also we do programs like our workshop for 10 years where they can express their emotions to heart. This is one of the programs that we have. Also, we implement the community garden. This was an inspiration for Felipe.
Speaker 2:Felipe was doing one of his postgraduate. He was doing assignment about interview people in New York who has a community garden, what the impacts, how the impact their life and the community. So he was talking about maybe eight months before and I was preparing the agenda for the board meeting and I came to my mind I want to propose them to see if we can do a community garden. Our clinic is so concrete, we don't have any space and we don't have money because it's a non-profit clinic, so our budget is too short. So I proposed that the idea was great and the community garden has been a success because we connect with the community. They feel they belong to something. They are doing physical activities, we're doing mindfulness, yoga, we are talking about nutritious food, how to eat healthy. How important is it, together with the family, talking with the members of the family where they're eating, talking about eating, mindfulness.
Speaker 1:So that program is a holistic form to see the patients and you can learn more from them besides going to the exam room and I think what's interesting is earlier in our conversation you were talking about how, when our children are younger and we plant seeds, I find it interesting how the community garden you're planting seeds, but you're allowing the people to feel empowered and you're planting seeds within them now that they are going to be able to pass on to future generations.
Speaker 2:Exactly exactly because this only all people go to the garden. They go with the children, they go into the park, they come with a stroller to the community garden because in the touch center it's not much things to do. Sometimes the transportation is very difficult for them, the language barrier is difficult, but have a community where they can gather in. Actually, we put like a bench, the friendship bench, which is not in my, it was not my idea, but this is in some box in Bahuia. This doctor, zachary, he did a study that the friendship bench you gathering women to talk about the issues, about the powers, about financial problems, issues with the kids. So they talk about it and they get empowered about that.
Speaker 2:So I read about this article. I say, well, we're going to do similar in that community garden. So, besides that community garden, we have the benchmark that people get gathering there just to do it's with any professional guidance. But having that option to sit there talking about anything, they can release their stress, they can. Maybe they can hear somebody. What can they could do in the same situation that they have. So it's kind of it's a learning process. There's been a lot of positive sides having the community garden and we have another project in the center clinic.
Speaker 2:We also have a grant coming from the state to provide services for people, for kids, that they having sexual relationships and they don't want their friends. So we do educate them how to prevent or if they have STI sexual transmitted disease, we provide treatment because sometimes they don't know where to go. Come on, so we provide that, for we educate.
Speaker 1:I like it because it becomes a safe space, yeah, and it brings the whole community together. They feel like number one. People have taken an active interest in us. We matter. And not only do we matter, but our children matter. And again it goes back to the whole educating of a community, because once we are all educated, wonderful things can happen. You feel like you are empowered empowered to be better than you were yesterday, empowering generations who are to come. And that's what it's about, and what I find so inspiring about what you're doing is you've taken your experience that you've had growing up and you've given it freely to a whole nother generation of people, yeah, so that they can see the possibilities of what their life can offer Exactly.
Speaker 1:I just think it's amazing.
Speaker 2:I feel so grateful to have this opportunity to serve. Of course, it's not only me, of course.
Speaker 2:I mean it's a whole group. There's a lot of people who are working in his program but if you listen to that, some of them have a very tragic family history so they're lonely here. They come here for a dream, for getting better, for providing food to the table to their families. So this is a very complicated situation, very complicated. Meanwhile they have to have support from someone, from some entity. The extended clinic is. The community of the Dutch Center is providing them that at least one resource, one little thing in the whole universe, is a grain, but just is a little. But doing something, some changes.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:And in the community in the whole. It's in the system actually, because if that community is healthy, the surroundings are healthier too, exactly Because of flourish.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I also think too that this world, like you said, they come here with dreams and aspirations, just like all of us have dreams and aspirations, and this world belongs to all of us. It doesn't just belong to just one select group of the population. None of us should be left alone.
Speaker 2:Exactly, exactly. It's emotionally and physically. They need us. They need the community to support them. They are here and, as myself, I have to give them something. It's small, it's nothing in comparison that I think I can do more, but at least this grain is going to make one change in one life, just important for me.
Speaker 1:That's very fulfilled, I think all of the healthcare professionals and the people within the community. You're providing this community, though, with hope, and that is everything. You have planted a seed of hope, a hope that their life can be better, a hope that their children's life can be better. Exactly, and it's like that's everything. That's huge, because without hope we just give up and we don't want to try. But if you have that one seed of hope, that makes a big difference.
Speaker 2:Make a big difference Exactly.
Speaker 1:You have so much knowledge and just the way that you speak about what you do, you have so much passion For what you do. It's ignited Something, even in my heart. Like each of us, we could take a little bit and it may not seem like much, but if we can offer a helping hand to someone in need, just a small part goes along the way.
Speaker 1:I'd like to ask you a few questions. But mental health has gained more recognition in recent years, and how does your background in psychiatry influence your approach? How do you go about speaking with those within the community and your work at the center clinic?
Speaker 2:Mental health is a very important part of the well-being you have to be. To have health you have to have balance mentally, physically and emotionally. When I only started with the pandemic, when I did a certification community health worker, I was doing that study for two years in RCTC so the center clinic gave me the scholarship to pursue that. When I was doing that and the COVID hit I said well, I was at home and I say I have to do something for the community. But this time I tried to do it from Costa Rica. So I hit in touch with one of my friends, jesus, a psychologist, and they need a workshop to prepare psychologists to respond phone calls when people have some mental issues. So I did this Was a very success. And then another organization invited me to talk about mental health in pandemic. So I did several conferences by Zoom. So that gave me a power. I learned that there's so many I was facing that the people was in need to do for mental health education or how to deal with that. So I implement in Dutch center that part as a community health worker I can coach the person about I talk about mindfulness, how to have a gratitude, how to do relaxation techniques, breathing techniques. So that helped to for stress, to avoid chronic anxiety or depression. So that is a little step that's going to help the community to recognize symptoms about anxiety or depression and then they can deal with that or recognize that they are really depressed and they can seek for help. And that's the way that I implement my knowledge about mental health into the community. So when I see the necessity of that, I realize I need to do also something for my community in Costa Rica.
Speaker 2:So I decided to go to provide my services as a psychiatry in Costa Rica because I have the license there. You still kept the license. I keep the license in Costa Rica. I go every two months to see patients that we are really in need because in that area what I hold, this very few psychiatrists I will say only two for the big big population. So I provide my services as small as only once every two months that I go there. But I see the whole week. I see the whole week patients and I can follow up them by soon and if they have some issues I can make a phone call, or by soon If they have some distress or crisis at the moment. But usually they wait for me. But if you don't have crisis, they can go to the social services, the hospital there.
Speaker 1:Wow, you have provided a communication piece for these patients. You are educating them so that they can also recognize the symptoms within each other.
Speaker 1:And you've given them empowerment to take action, to take action about what they are feeling Exactly. I just think it goes back to who we are meant to be and who we are called to be in this life and I was speaking to another guest that I had and there are a lot of times where we say we want to do more, but you have taken the I want to do more and you've put it into action Because, again, there are a lot of people who can talk about it. I look at you and I'm like what a gift that you willingly share with other people. And a lot of times you know we have those gifts and maybe someone might think, oh, you know, it's too much work, it's too much. You give back because it's your calling.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think my calling is I have to give back a little bit to the population, to the human beings. Yeah, I mean, it's going to be so. Playing life, doing nothing, just stay at home Mostly my kids are already growing up half of them but I can't imagine live without doing nothing to the humans I need to provide, to help in somehow. Just listen I think I'm a good listener and now I'm talking a lot, but I just listen to the people. I think this is this. Is you make change in that?
Speaker 1:person. I agree, and as I'm just listening to you, you know, dear listeners, you can see why there are certain people that I gravitate towards and you just have such a giving spirit. No-transcript, just sitting here, just to be in your presence, honestly like, makes me want to well up with tears, because I feel the compassionate heart in which you have and what you give them, and I know sitting in your presence it makes their life a hundred times better. Like what?
Speaker 2:a gift. I thank you for saying that, but really I feel that this is a blessing for me to have the opportunity to serve, because I enjoy it. I really taking care of the patients or the person that I talk. I can call them every day, of course, but at least I think of them every day when they talk to me about some situation. I carry on that issues and I will pray for them. I hope that everything's gonna be okay. Sometimes I just text are you okay, how is the medication going? How do you feel? I always keep track of them because it's feel like I have to. As long as I hear something is going on for them, I try to help, at least listen and guide them. I can't say you have to do this and that. No, I mean just listen to them. I feel this.
Speaker 1:The spirit calls and you listen. That's what the spirit calls and you listen and you answer. Because there are a lot of times I think we hear the voice within us. I always say it's the spirit that calls and a lot of times we can push that voice down, just open your heart and say, okay, today, what purpose could I have for today?
Speaker 2:What can I do for human beings today? Just think about that and you let your heart to move Positive and tendon. Yeah, yes, just one day at a time. Just do something, just a little. Just start with that. I encourage the people do volunteering job because that give you you feel like a, you feel happy. Actually, it's a truly happiness. The serotonin levels increase when you do volunteering and you're giving away something for you your time, your talent, your wherever you can offer, and you are giving away that. And then you feel satisfied because you are doing something for the community, for the for communities, and then your self-steams get better because you say, okay, I did something. Yeah, that's give you happiness.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, because it's your time. You are donated your time, that's it. Yeah, it's nothing like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because when you receive salary for that, yeah, okay, it's you have to, but when it's volunteer, it's your passion, that's it.
Speaker 1:And I think that's a growing theme that I've come across in the last couple of months is what is your passion, what calls you, what makes you wake up every single day saying that I can do more? When you listen and you're truthful to that inner voice, it can do nothing but fulfill you. Because you're giving a gift to someone else, can you share a success story that someone shared with you?
Speaker 2:by being in this program, we met very incredible person who wants to donate their time. But I'm caring and it's amazing how the people I just met a medical student and he came here like a month ago to study medicine here and he's from South and he has the passion to volunteer. He wants to work with the LGBTQ group and we don't have that much people that are interested in working with that. So I say, okay, perfect, let's do together, let's work. We are a small step, but we are forming some two programs to support this group because they don't have much in that area, so we are doing so. In that process I am meeting different people who are calling from to donate their time, their talents to the community, and many others volunteers that I can name off. I learned from them that their passion, they are very contagious.
Speaker 1:And it brings me back to what you had said earlier about your son, who started a community garden where he was, and then you remembered that. So when you were in your meeting and you were talking and you were like, okay, because each of us, we help each other and all of these different people that you're meeting, somehow the pieces of the puzzle, even if we can't see it at the time, it's all the pieces getting put together in this huge big puzzle and it's making a remarkable story. Exactly, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, if you see from this after you put it, that's it yeah, but when the process, I can't see that, but I just get the idea. And then I've talked with somebody. Actually, the money that they because we didn't have budget for that the money was coming from, I mean U of M extension, which is a group that helped the community in some how, but they wanted to do a community garden, but they don't have the lot. And I have the lot because I talked with someone who was gonna provide the lot but we don't have the money. So we like a pandering, it's like my God, it's coming from heaven, because they provide the money. They want to do it but they don't have. So all together, so it's yeah, it's great.
Speaker 2:How about the bench? It's interesting because I want to do the French bench but the benches are expensive. We don't have money to buy that one and I want to put a nice bench. I was looking, maybe, in the garage sale. I was looking garage sale and then I was looking for a rock to hold on a board. That was we were doing for the community. I was looking for a big rock and then I went back in the clinic and was on the corner. It was a bench. It was a bench there without foot, one foot, only three foot. But that's okay. I grabbed it. I said this is the, because I was praying for the bench. And I found it around the corner, just in the where the old stuff was there, and it was this is something. So I grabbed it, I put it in my throat, I put it in the garden.
Speaker 1:That's fantastic. That's fantastic and I always say to the universe knows your heart, the universe will always come through, I would have loved to see your face that day that you walked around the corner and the bench was there.
Speaker 2:I took a picture, say this is, that's it. And actually because that doesn't have one leg, so I put it to one trunk, I put it there. In the in the. So I mean, if you go to, to our Facebook, you can see the bench and you see the leg. I mean with a trunk. It's very interesting, very fun. So did you find the rock? I found the rock too.
Speaker 1:Oh, yay, yes. That is that is fantastic. That is fantastic. I would ask you this question is how do cultural factors influence healthcare decisions within the Latino community and how do you address those cultural sensitivity in your work?
Speaker 2:It's because we share, even though we are different for different countries, but we share the same language and then some traditions so we can share all my backgrounds, identify with this community here in in Dutch center. As a psychiatrist, I know some cultural issues that they are facing. I can understand what they are facing.
Speaker 1:Thank you for thank you for sharing that the center clinic is a prominent part of your career now, so can you tell us more about the clinic's mission and the services it provides within the community?
Speaker 2:The center clinic is a non-profit clinic which is starting 2004. It started, I think, with a small amount of patients providing family planning and also treat them for STI. The patients grows and then the family medicine doctor from Mayo Clinic they start a rotation there to provide primary care. So they volunteering, they donate their time after works hours in the clinic so they go there. And these People are underserved. They don't have insurance. If Some of them have insurance, they don't. They have a language barrier so they prefer seeing somebody the local, locally, can see them and they don't know where to go. Yeah, it would. If they don't have insurance, they don't know where to go. So we provide the basic primary care. If, if we can go further, we can Make Inter-consult with the Mayo physicians or any other homestead or any other Services.
Speaker 2:But we accept the nations and we implemented different programs in the community. We do outreach, do a lot of education. We have a program that calls healthy mind health devices. We provide education to the community. Go through soon. Education is important, as I mentioned before, for prevent or recognize different entities or different mass illness. And Also we we are having a project to open a dental dental clinic. We apply to the ground, because it's not dental clinic in that area is Is that is a public health issue too? Yeah, because if you have your mouth healthy, you can have a lot of illness or many things coming on after that. This is a big project and we are thinking maybe at the end of the year we're gonna have a big announcement about that. I'm very excited about it and we have a space at the clinic and maybe in the back we can open up A dental clinic there. But this is a small step is on the table and I'm Determinated to have that at some point, yeah if we as a community would like to help you in some way.
Speaker 1:Is there Facebook page or is?
Speaker 2:there, there is a web page. Is the center clinic that or Okay? And also you can look in Facebook. It's the center clinic and you can volunteer in anything you decide, because we are open to anything. Yeah, we have there, as I mentioned, at the family medicine doctor, the medical students, now the pharmaceutical Program from Mayo. They want to Donate their time. So we're growing. We are growing, yeah, but we at some point we need some more money to expand our services.
Speaker 2:But yeah, we are we're doing whatever that we can't now we're full hands, but happy.
Speaker 1:Wow, that's happy to provide the services. Thank you, thank you for sharing that E and I would say you know. Looking ahead, what are your goals, what are your aspirations for your work in community health?
Speaker 2:Hmm, I would like to have a bigger clinic and to to provide more Services, because we will have a clinic night which only see maybe all eight patients, ten patients, that clinic night. I want to have the capacity to provide the services to more people because this is this really a small amount? It's only the clinic night, but we accept walkings every day. Well, not every day, because we open only three days a week, but the days that we are open we are accepted walkings and I want to see the community get together as state, tight, support each other and and how the, the. As soon as they are here, they they have to Feel that they belong to, they are belong to something, not they are in the air, feel that they have a support For, for the surroundings.
Speaker 1:Thank you for sharing the intention that you put out today by you speaking it. I know that this is gonna definitely happen, because I think, when it comes to all of us, we all want to feel we belong to something bigger and, with that being said, I want to know a. As a mother of four, how do you find balance in your roles as a parent, a healthcare professional and the community leader, and what advice do you have for other working mothers?
Speaker 2:I think the first thing that you have to do is believe in yourself, love your family and Knowing that, when do you have that settle, you have that in place Give away something that you can't do it, something that a way that you're, you feel like you can't share With the rest of the community. It is hard to find balance, but otherwise you Won't be happy. I think, because if you give away something besides your family and yourself, it's a compliment. But you need to find that, that balance, that that balance. You have to take care of you, your, your mind, your body, your family and then the community, because these three things is gonna mold you and keep you move forward.
Speaker 1:And I Thank you for sharing that. I I just have latched on to that and and I sometimes, when I'm in these interviews, I close my eyes and it Reminds me of something that you have said earlier and I think about the three things that you just said and I go back to your childhood, of how you first saw this within your parents, of them giving Themselves a way to their community, to bring up the community, to build the community. And you, as a young girl, seeing this has shaped your life and shaped the trajectory, because you didn't know Any different. You know this is who you are, this is who you were destined to be, and it shows in the way that your parents Live their life and have lived their life, and it shows the gift that they have instilled in you. And again, this gift that was instilled in you, even if Some of the community has not had that gift, they now have that gift through you and it's Pretty special, my friend.
Speaker 2:Oh, thank you. Yeah, thank you. Thank you for saying that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, thank you and I would like to ask you is there any question you wished I would have asked you.
Speaker 2:If I have some talent. Yes, darling but the sad thing is, I don't have any music talent. Thank God, you didn't ask that.
Speaker 1:But your family makes up for that. I just want to thank my beautiful friend in it for being here and sharing her story. It's truly been a privilege and a pleasure to chat with you. Enid's path from Costa Rica to her impactful role as CEO of the center clinic in Minnesota is Nothing short of amazing. Her and her team provide an exceptional Service to the community. That is not just within the community, it becomes far-reaching because everybody becomes touched by you and your team's generosity.
Speaker 1:Enid's very work explores the profound influence of her psychiatric background and the compelling narratives that have shaped her purposeful journey. Her commitment to mental health advocacy is not just commendable, it's a wonderful inspiration. I have a profound appreciation for you and your power of empathy and service in the realm of health care. Your enduring dedication reminds me that within each and every one of us lies the potential to make a positive impact in our world and in the lives of others, especially within our community, and I will definitely carry Forward the lessons that I've learned from you today, and I think I I told you that earlier.
Speaker 1:There are a lot of things that have resonated deep within my spirit, dear listeners, through Enid's story and what she has shared with us today. Together, we can all go forward creating a transformative change within our world and our communities and beyond. This is fueled by an unwavering belief and hope that, like my friend Enid, we too can be great agents of hope Within the world. So thank you, e, I appreciate you and I love you, my friend, and thank you for what you do within our community.
Speaker 2:No, thank you. I love you too, and thank you for this opportunity to have this chatting with you and your podcast, and good luck with everything. And you are my hero. Oh yeah, I admire you. You are an excellent person, wonderful person, wonderful soul. I I'm so happy to call you my friend. I'm an honor for me to get to know you.
Speaker 1:Thank you, my friend. Thank you.
Speaker 2:I am glad that God has crossed our paths and you are touching many souls with this podcast and with your, your life.
Speaker 1:You are you are, you have a light.