Have you ever been the recipient of a spontaneous cup of coffee, courtesy of the person ahead of you in line? That warm buzz you get isn't just from the caffeine—it's the glow of human kindness. Our latest conversation is a heartfelt exploration into the world of paying it forward, a space where small gestures lead to big smiles and even bigger impacts. We share tales from personal experiences and others', highlighting those unforgettable moments when a simple act of generosity sparked a chain of goodwill.
Generosity takes many forms, and sometimes it's the unintended kindness that can leave the deepest impression. We delve into the tricky balance of offering a helping hand, from the accidental to the deliberate, and how these moments help us connect and foster gratitude. Join us as we unwrap the true essence of giving, revealing the stories that show us just how much we stand to gain from opening our hearts. From helping family to the nuances of aiding the homeless, we examine the intentions behind our actions and how they resonate across different societal landscapes.
As we close this chapter, we'll leave you pondering the emotional weight of our actions, both monetary and otherwise. We're reminded that gestures like complimenting someone's holiday decorations can be just as meaningful as financial support. And as we bid farewell, we invite you to not just listen but to become part of the narrative by sharing your own stories of kindness. It's through these shared experiences that we continue to weave the tapestry of compassion and positivity in our communities.
Have you ever been the recipient of a spontaneous cup of coffee, courtesy of the person ahead of you in line? That warm buzz you get isn't just from the caffeine—it's the glow of human kindness. Our latest conversation is a heartfelt exploration into the world of paying it forward, a space where small gestures lead to big smiles and even bigger impacts. We share tales from personal experiences and others', highlighting those unforgettable moments when a simple act of generosity sparked a chain of goodwill.
Generosity takes many forms, and sometimes it's the unintended kindness that can leave the deepest impression. We delve into the tricky balance of offering a helping hand, from the accidental to the deliberate, and how these moments help us connect and foster gratitude. Join us as we unwrap the true essence of giving, revealing the stories that show us just how much we stand to gain from opening our hearts. From helping family to the nuances of aiding the homeless, we examine the intentions behind our actions and how they resonate across different societal landscapes.
As we close this chapter, we'll leave you pondering the emotional weight of our actions, both monetary and otherwise. We're reminded that gestures like complimenting someone's holiday decorations can be just as meaningful as financial support. And as we bid farewell, we invite you to not just listen but to become part of the narrative by sharing your own stories of kindness. It's through these shared experiences that we continue to weave the tapestry of compassion and positivity in our communities.
Hey everybody. This is Michelle and this is Julie. Welcome to a Blonde, a Brunette and a Mike podcast. What is our podcast all about?
Speaker 2:you ask? Well, we're 250-something women with life experience and, oh, bloody to say, which is exactly what we're gonna do right now.
Speaker 1:Now, hey Jules, have you ever had somebody pay for your latte at Starbucks? You know how, when you're in line and the person in front of you pays for you, but you don't know till you get up because you're going to pay for your own, and they're like oh, the car in front of you. Has that ever happened to you?
Speaker 2:That has happened to me and I've done that for other people because I don't want to break the chain.
Speaker 1:I know I've never had that. Really, I've never had. No, I've never. I've done it, I have done it, but I've never, like you, started the chain. Like I started the chain, I did it for somebody behind me, okay. But yeah, I guess I'm asking that question because of what we're going to talk about today.
Speaker 2:Well, there are so many ways to pay things forward, but that's the one that probably everybody knows and is the most common, because it seems like it happens quite often. Yeah, yeah, which makes me chuckle a tiny bit, because paying it forward is a really nice gesture to do for people, but we're talking like a $7 latte.
Speaker 1:I know, but I can say for myself that if somebody did do that for me, I would be. It's just like such a thoughtful thing.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 1:It would make me just feel good inside.
Speaker 2:Well, I think that's the idea, yeah, and actually, when you think about the concept of paying it forward, it's really about helping somebody else, or having someone else have the ability to brighten their day just by a little gesture that you're making.
Speaker 2:And it could be a little gesture, it could be a big gesture. I mean, I've seen different things in doing this research where people have done like. There's one. One example that I can think of was a group of seniors that would go out for breakfast Like every week. They would get together and maybe go for a walk or something and then they would have breakfast and in. Christmas time. They would choose a different restaurant every time to get together and they would collectively each leave $100 for a tip for the person who was there.
Speaker 1:Oh my, gosh, stop it.
Speaker 2:And they would end up, you know, maybe finding the person who really needed it, whether it be for Christmas gifts or for paying rent or whatever. But for however, they knew this, I don't know, but they would do this during the holidays.
Speaker 1:I love that.
Speaker 2:I just thought it was so sweet when I when I read about that story, because it's such a nice way for them to be able to not only give back in their community but, you know, to help someone out who probably was in real need. And we're not talking like 100 bucks, I mean there's like 10 people there.
Speaker 1:So we're talking 10,. You know 10, $10,000.
Speaker 2:We're talking $1,000, which you know at any time of the year.
Speaker 1:Collectively, I thought you might. Collectively they would get up to so $10 each and they would leave her 100 is no, $1,000. So they would each leave $100. $100. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2:It's not like they did it all year long. No but still. Wow. That happened to me one time way back in the day, when I waited tables. I was 21 and I work at a sports bar down by the well. At the time it was the kingdom and I had a table that was these guys, canadian guys that came in after a game I think I might have mentioned this at one point.
Speaker 2:Anyway, next to them was this other guy and his two buddies, and all of them are partying it up and having a great time and I'm helping all of them. Well, the bar is super, super crowded and very narrow and long and they were at the very last table. Long and the short of it is the Canadian guys dined and dashed and left this bill that was like I don't know, over $100, easily over $100. And the guys that were sitting at the table next to them saw what happened and I was going to have to cover that out of my earnings.
Speaker 2:I mean, that wasn't something that my boss was going to say sorry, you're off the hook, you don't have to pay it. I was going to have to cover it. So I was really I was 21. I was super upset. You know, living paycheck to paycheck the whole bit, and these guys left me a tip that was in the amount of, or approximately the amount of the bill that the dashers did. Yeah, that was a pretty cool pay it forward. I did date the guy for a while, just a little while, so you had a little payback.
Speaker 1:I got a little payback too.
Speaker 2:He was a little older than me, so that's maybe why he had the means. I don't know. But it's funny how you remember. I remember that story so vividly all these years later, because it was such a kind thing. Maybe he had an ulterior motive. I don't know, but it was a really kind thing, you know, for him to do anything like that.
Speaker 1:It's just it's. It's a really selfless. Type of act you know.
Speaker 2:So the whole concept of paying it forward has been around for a long time, but not necessarily discussed in that capacity. There was a movie I don't know if you saw it, it was out, I believe it came out in 2000, called Paying it.
Speaker 1:Forward. Was it that long ago? Yeah, yeah, I remember that movie. I did see it, but probably that long ago. Yeah, I haven't watched it again.
Speaker 2:I saw Spacey in it and I believe, Helen Hunt, and then Haley Joel Osmond was the little boy who was in school and his project in school was to find a way to make the world a better place, and so this whole concept of Pay it Forward was the theme of this movie and I just, you know, first of all, teaching a child. That is pretty cool because they're doing something for someone else without having expectations of receiving, which we know. Kids, you know a lot of the time they're always like. You know what's in it for me.
Speaker 2:They're in a very selfish place in their lives when they're little you know. But if you dial back to the late 1700s, when I was doing my research, benjamin Franklin had done exactly the same thing. There's actually a letter that is on the internet, that's posted, and this letter was to a gentleman named Benjamin Webb who was in some kind of financial dire straits. It doesn't really stipulate what that is, but Benjamin Franklin writes this letter to this guy and says I would like to loan you this money, and he used the word loan in there. But he said but I don't want you to pay me back, I want you to take this opportunity when you're able to help somebody else. So the same kind of concept. I mean, obviously he had money or had the means to be able to help another individual, but this is like in the 1700s, you know, I just thought it was kind of cool to read that this was something that was happening even back then.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was going to say, and I think, since that movie, I mean really, these are things that, as humans and you know, having a kind heart and do unto others as you would have them do unto you all of those things. I think it's all been in play for a really long time, but since this movie, that's kind of where that tagline came from, and so it put this whole concept into a different context, if you will.
Speaker 1:Well, I think it gives people the opportunity to see that it's cool to be kind, right, you know, and it might be just something super simple, like you're going into your apartment building and the lady can't open the door because her hands are so full that your neighbor you hold the door open for her or you help her carry her groceries in and just how the magnitude of the snowball effect from these types of things, especially if in your mind you are thinking that, like the Starbucks line, you know back to that, didn't you what? You were telling me something about that where, like it lasted for I don't know, like 20 cars or something.
Speaker 2:I think I was like maybe the 17th car or something that's so cool, yeah, kept going. You know the people behind it kept going and it was just. It was like a Saturday morning or something. So it was like everybody is like in a good place and there nobody's really rushing or freaking out.
Speaker 1:They told you and that you know. They pointed out that you were the 17th one because they probably helped. Keeping you know helped to keep that going. I did that once at McDonald's.
Speaker 2:So the people behind you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because just everybody does it A lot of the time. You always hear about Starbucks, but I was at McDonald's once and I thought, oh, I'm going to do that here because it seems kind of unsus you know not necessarily the place really that you hear about doing that.
Speaker 2:So I had this happen. She was a couple of weeks ago actually. I was at the grocery store and there was a woman there. She was with her kids. The kids were probably, you know, tweenagers, maybe early teens kind of a thing. Anyway, you could tell she was on a budget. She was paying very close attention to what she was. I just was noticing this had put in her basket and she had her little list and everything and her kids. Anyway, they get to the point where they're checking out and she was short and she was paying with cash because I think she was trying to really stick to whatever this budget was that she was doing, and it's like, if you looked at her basket, no judgment at all.
Speaker 2:There was nothing in there that was like exorbitant or Right, just basics, just basicities.
Speaker 1:Yeah, which is so insanely expensive right now.
Speaker 2:But she was short, like close, I don't know, it was right around the five dollars or something, and I was like, okay, selfishly, probably in a little bit of a hurry, right, but I was like I got you. That's good, just enjoy your day.
Speaker 2:And she was so happy and appreciative that I had done that. And I didn't do that to be like this big martyr or anything. It was just more like you could tell she was stressed out. You could tell the kids were kind of embarrassed that this was happening and I but do you really?
Speaker 1:Because I know the kind of person you are, so you're like I got you, and because we're talking about this, you probably think about it or have thought about it a little bit more, but I can remember being that person.
Speaker 1:I literally would go to the grocery store with a calculator and a list and a pencil and I yeah, because I couldn't spend more than a certain amount. So just knowing, and there's times where you're like guesstimating and you try to make it fun for the kids how much do you think it is and make it a game, so everything seems normal to just step in and take that load off of her in that moment and she'll remember that forever and I hope someday.
Speaker 2:I'm sure she will. Whoever that woman is will take kindness on another person and help them out.
Speaker 1:I mean, I've seen it with like bus fare.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like when I was riding the bus back in the day, when I would be driving down or going downtown or whatever and people would be short on their bus fare or whatever. It's not that big of a deal to do something like that for people if you have the means to do it Right.
Speaker 2:Let me ask you this question, because we were talking about this yesterday, about our families, and how is it with your family? Because with my, I'm thinking about, like my mom would you, would they be happy or would they be proud of you for helping other people that are outside of your family? Yes, absolutely so. If your family was in need of help but you're helping other people, who would they?
Speaker 1:Well, that's different, that's a whole different concept. If there's need within the family that's known, of course you're going to help family first If that need is known and you have the ability to do it. But if you're just helping somebody outside if I was helping somebody with a bill or something outside of my family one, I don't know really how they would know- Right, well, I would never really mention anything at all, and I ask this because I think it would be.
Speaker 2:You know the joke about Julie so generous.
Speaker 1:Generous.
Speaker 2:Julie, generous Julie. It's not intended to be a really positive thing. I think when it said that Julie's so generous, it's more than I'm forgetful, or that.
Speaker 1:I'm. I was just going to say that because I just thought of two instances.
Speaker 2:Where I was forgetful.
Speaker 1:Oh Well, like when you went to Arizona, you went to Arizona and you left your sunglasses and something else. You were telling me and I was like, did you call and you're like, I just got new ones, whatever it was. You know, somebody else got new sunglasses and I paid it forward for someone in Arizona.
Speaker 2:Or I left my. My mom had come up with this story one time and I'm just like where did she even remember this stuff? Like 15, 20 years ago I left a platter at someone's house when we were at a family gathering and so she kept it to see if I'd noticed. That's the generous thing she's talking about. But if I help other people, she thinks that's kind of odd. I think she would rather that it be helping my own family and investing my, but you do that too.
Speaker 1:I do that too, you do that too.
Speaker 2:So anyway, just curious, how that would work. No, but your family always in our kids obviously we're going to be in a position where, if we can help them financially, or if we can help them emotionally or with childcare, you have all these grandchildren.
Speaker 1:I'm starting to think of all these stories now Of me being forgetful no, no, no, Because I'm going to get a complex no of just paying it forward and things that people have done for me. I don't know what made me think of it, but when you were talking about riding the bus back in the day, same thing. I used to take the bus to Nordstrom and this one day I got off at the park and ride and I had to walk back to my apartment and it was absolutely pouring every single cat and dog in the world in that moment and I didn't have an umbrella.
Speaker 2:That's because you're from here and people from here don't need a parachute.
Speaker 1:But as I was walking back to my apartment, this van stopped and it was a mom, and I don't remember if it was a boy or a girl, but she rolled down the window and she said here we have an extra umbrella.
Speaker 2:Yeah, take the umbrella. I thought you were going to say that she told you to get in her car, or something.
Speaker 1:No, that would have been a hesitation. I don't know, but I probably would have because she seemed pretty normal. Mill Creek mom.
Speaker 2:I had to wonder whether she thought you were normal enough to get in your car.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So I was like oh no, no, no, no, really, we have another one, just take it. So they could tell I would probably look like a drowned rat and I'm all dressed up because I'm walking home from Nordstrom. But yeah, so they gave me an umbrella, there's all kinds of little things that you can do. Random acts of kindness.
Speaker 2:So do you think that people can take advantage of others?
Speaker 1:who are?
Speaker 2:doing random acts of kindness.
Speaker 1:I think probably I can't. I've got nothing on the top of my head that I think of.
Speaker 2:Well, there's an assumption that that's just how they are.
Speaker 1:Probably. That they would do things for other people, but I think that Isn't that kind of how Gen Z is now. They're taking all this kind of things out. We called you guys out the entitlement piece.
Speaker 2:Just throw that out there. I think we have entitlement issues too, but they're just different.
Speaker 1:Yeah, true, and we acknowledge them True.
Speaker 2:Okay, we learn them, we acknowledge them, yeah. So I want to burn out in a.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I do think that sure kindness like that can definitely, I'm sure, be taken advantage of. But here's the caveat If you're doing those random acts of kindness, you should be doing it because you want to do that.
Speaker 2:It's coming from your heart.
Speaker 1:What the other person does with the money you give them, if they pay it forward or they don't. Whatever it is, the whole intent is you know the reasons that you're doing?
Speaker 2:it.
Speaker 1:I just got goosebumps, Sorry, that's just.
Speaker 2:I mean it's just like Michelle passed the guy with the sign coming off the exit on the freeway. So those are the kinds of things where okay, where we live, obviously there. Let's just talk about the homeless population for a second is huge.
Speaker 2:We've got issues with that all over the place and people on the corners of you know the exits and entrances to the on ramps on the freeways, and I mean all over the place. I've chosen at this point in my life I used to, I used to give me too many people, but I've chosen now not to do that in the same. I mean, maybe someone will I don't know catch my attention or what have you, but I don't know that that's definitely a beneficial thing and I and I and I Not doing that anymore.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean, I know, I mean I don't know if it's definitely beneficial to give money. And so here it goes back to you do things for the goodness of your own heart, not necessarily for others. And I've seen where it's like people say I'm not giving them any money because they're just going to use it for drugs or they're going to use it for alcohol or whatever you know they're going to use it for, and that's really not your business, I suppose what they do with it.
Speaker 2:But that's the, that's what you kind of start hearing you know for people, myself included, quite honestly, because I I figured there's so many, especially here are so many resources for people that are available if they want them and they can have food. They can get whatever they need from that way. So that's how my logic works there. Yeah, I'm talking about you know a little kid who's you know a little kid who's you know lost in the department store. You know that random act of kindness for that parent is going to be getting that kid to a counter so they can call and Ensure that they're safe and their parents can find them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Do you ever hear that Christmas song, the Christmas shoes? That?
Speaker 2:song oh gosh really I.
Speaker 1:Cry every time I hear it. You know me, yeah, but it's about this little boy who, uh, he, you know, takes all the money that he has cuz he wants. He finds out that his mom is dying, it's Christmas Eve and he runs to the store cuz he wants to buy his mom these pair of Christmas shoes, right, yeah. And so he's standing in line and, you know, the guy behind him is like you were at the grocery store in a hurry and he's the little boy's short money and can't, you know, get the, can't get the shoes. And of course, the man behind him steps in and, you know, gives him the money. And I'm getting goosebumps, cuz even just talking about it makes me emotional, like.
Speaker 1:Happened, yeah, you know because those are, it's a song at Christmas time, but yeah, those are real-life moments just like as much as that meant to that little boy in that song.
Speaker 1:I'm sure it meant that to that lady in the grocery store. Yeah, with you. And, and you know, shortly after I was Getting divorced I was trying to move into an apartment. Here's here's another story that comes to mind. And I had a co-worker of mine who knew my situation and she knew I needed help with a deposit to get into this apartment. So I met up with her one night. She's like I have something for you. I I didn't know at the time what, what that was or what she was doing and she Met up with me and she gave me cash and she to help with the deposit for this apartment. And she told me she said the only thing that I want Back from you is to do this again for somebody else who needs it at some point in the future. She didn't want the money back, she wanted me to exactly what we're talking about pay it forward.
Speaker 1:Which I did, probably ten years later. It was just a couple years ago. I'm a friend of mine. Same situation divorced. She was trying to move and I called her a texture. I'm like, hey, can you meet me? That is, I just have something I need to give you.
Speaker 2:Same thing gave her the money already.
Speaker 1:An angel same, yeah, same same amount gave it to her and I just said same things. I don't you know. I want you to pay me back, but I want you to do the same thing for somebody else at some point, it's so cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So it, I mean it, it works, it's, I think, the human nature of everybody, to you know, have those heartfelt moments and to really know the impact that those things can have on someone right or a family, you know, depending on their situation.
Speaker 2:Well, I think what it boils down to is that we live in a very, very chaotic world. Yeah and with that chaotic world comes a lot of suffering and a lot of people not necessarily Communicating about what their needs are and just kind of living with things and there's small little things that any human being can do yeah to try to brighten the the day of another person, or I honestly feel like it's more About our own hearts being full sometimes than their other person's heart being full absolutely yeah, doing those things are Just what you said.
Speaker 1:I'm so glad you said that. Yeah, it's so true.
Speaker 2:It's really about. I mean, I don't know about you, but it's like I walk away from that feeling good Like I was able to do something for someone else. Yeah, absolutely there's plenty of that that can go around you know, and it doesn't have to cost anything, right, it doesn't have to cost a ton of money for people to be able to to show kindness to others even taking time.
Speaker 1:I just I don't know just this thought there's a little house up around the corner who at Christmas time. I just love the way their house looks, so what they have on the windows, it's just so cute. And at one day, coming home from work, I decided to pull over because I always look at him like I just love that house. I would go out of my way to go that way home so that I could see that house. And, yeah, I thought I need to tell them that you know how cute it is and thank you so much and I'm really enjoying it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, when people put lights up or when I, when we lived in the Mill Creek neighborhood, it's like we'd go for walks, you know, every day and there were a few homes that these people were just like, so detailed with. They were just love gardening, obviously.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah home so pretty and they you could tell they put a ton of effort into it. I remember there was one that was on the corner not far from our house, maybe six or seven homes down, and we were walking with a dog and I Was like I just wanted to tell you, it's like I just love going by your home, mm-hmm looks so pretty flowers, everything just looks so pretty. It just looks like a really beautiful home.
Speaker 2:And this woman's face was just like she totally was, like she put so much energy into it. She was so excited that somebody noticed yeah, didn't cost me anything. I truly enjoyed seeing her house you know when we're on the walks and it was nice for her to kind of get that From someone else that she didn't even know.
Speaker 1:I didn't even know her.
Speaker 2:So Little things like that again. So I think that brings a greater sense of connection and Belonging you know in in your community or wherever you're at.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know when you feel like you could connect with another person on that fundamental level. Yeah, you know that there is a. There's a Foundation, actually a pay it forward foundation. I didn't know that there is and it's a national. We'll put the. It's just the website pay it forward, I think it's org, but we can put it up with the With the actual episode here. But there is. I'll kind of go through exactly how it works. It's pretty simple person a whoever that is performs an act of kindness for person B and then, in turn, that person B actually does a random act of kindness or a paying it forward to three other people and then those three other people do it to three other people. No, this is not an MLM. This is not multi-level marketing.
Speaker 1:Or do you remember that commercial back in the day that Farrah Fawcett used to do Faberge and they told two friends, and they told two friends, and so on, and so?
Speaker 2:on, and so on, and so on. Yeah, it's the same.
Speaker 1:You're totally dating yourself for Farrah Fawcett.
Speaker 2:But it's exactly true and again, it doesn't have to be a ton of money. It can be a nice email to somebody, it can be a card saying I'm just thinking about you. It could be anything. But I think it's kind of cool that there's actually a foundation that does that and the idea of spreading that web of kindness or these random acts.
Speaker 2:It makes sense when you're doing it to more than one person Like if you were to do that with me, then I would think of three random acts for someone else and it's putting a conscious thought or conscious effort into trying to make the world around you a little bit better.
Speaker 1:I know that sounds a little bit. No better. I'm brighter, just sprinkling sunshine one person at a time, there we go.
Speaker 2:That's what we're doing so anyway, positive ripple effect.
Speaker 1:But you know, and you could do that very intentionally I know you'd like that word.
Speaker 1:My word Very intentionally. You can do that because you know like even when it comes to your kids, like if you do something that maybe you would normally do for them, it might be something that you do have to go out of your way to do, but you're going to do it for them. Again back to, because it's family. Maybe. Just start consciously thinking you know, I'm going to do this for you with one condition I want you to do something similar for somebody else, and I've never really approached things like that with them before I mean they do stuff for our kids all the time right.
Speaker 2:That's what I mean, but with me it's like my way of showing love, which, you already know, is baking, you know, and of course, if I leave it here, then I'll eat it, so that kind of thing. But yesterday I bought bananas earlier in the week purposely for the very reason that my kids love banana bread. I didn't tell them that's what I was doing, but I put a message out and just like making banana bread and of course you know Zoe's like, yay, I get one. And then I made another.
Speaker 2:I made the gluten free because Andrew's girlfriend, amelia, I had gluten, so it's like I purposely made one that would be specifically that she could eat and she loved it, which made me so happy.
Speaker 1:I have to ask how do you do that?
Speaker 2:What do you mean? Gluten free? Just use gluten free flour.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, she tells you how much I go out of my way to be health conscious that way. Honestly, I just never really paid attention to it till she was in my life and now I pay attention to it all the time. My sister does gluten free. That's why she does gluten free stuff like crazy.
Speaker 2:I mean she doesn't feel good if she eats. I could eat it or not eat it it doesn't matter. But anyway, she said, you'd never notice.
Speaker 1:So that's good, that means it turned out. That's cool, yeah, stuff like that, but yeah, so I don't know nobody like chocolate as much as I do you know, like I'm.
Speaker 2:I got to stop baking because it's just going to slap right on my ass.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, she is, she does bake. Let me just say, julie does bake, and even when she's not eating the stuff, because she's like, hey, I have cookies, do you want some? And I'm like no, and then I'll go upstairs. We have this magic banana leaf. We have this hallway and there's this little table where we like put the mail or things that I have for Julie or that Julie has for me, and it's this tray. Yeah, it's a banana leaf, so we call it the magic banana leaf and the MBL.
Speaker 2:Anyways, and even if I say no, I said MBL to Isaac, her son who lives, and he didn't know what I was talking about. So I think it's just, it's our thing. Cold word for magic banana leaf yeah.
Speaker 1:But yeah, she'll put the cookies, she'll put the bread, she puts the stuff in there anyways, and of course it gets eaten.
Speaker 2:So Well, Isaac's a human garbage case so. I know that you probably won't eat it, but he will.
Speaker 1:Yeah, usually anyway, but even therein. So that's something for, you know lots of generation. You know giving something. I used to do that I don't really have neighbors anymore that move in and out but I would do that, bake something and bring it over and say, hi, welcome to the neighborhood. Yeah, yeah, I got to get back to some of those basics.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So do you think that this is something that applies in the same way, though, with people that you know, or is it just like the whole paying it forward? Do you, when you think of that, do you think of it being like to strangers, or do you think mostly of it being to people that you know?
Speaker 1:I think it's a combination of both. Absolutely, and you know, when you ask that question it's making me think, and definitely a combination of both, because I think it is like it has to do with the fabric of who you are. And as to how you go about it or the kinds of things that you're doing.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean? Yeah, and the things that you're doing are not conditional.
Speaker 1:Right yeah.
Speaker 2:They're not conditional upon receiving something back, or that you owe me or anything like that.
Speaker 1:I was telling Rick that we were discussing your sweetheart yes, my sweetheart, that we were going to discuss this topic, and I just kind of asked him same thing. I said what do you think of when you know? Pay it forward and exactly that. He's had opportunities. Same where you help somebody out and hey, don't worry about paying me back. Just if you can at some point in the future just help somebody else out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's the way to do it. So let's talk about our audience and what they can do. They don't have to join the foundation, the pay it forward foundation but our challenge would be that, if you're listening to this podcast I'm looking over here now at the camera that you think of ways that you can pay it forward to the people that are around you and not ask for anything in return, but in turn say hey, just do something nice for someone else and it's amazing how quickly things can monopolize.
Speaker 2:They could ask they know how quickly things can. What's the word I'm looking for? Not monopolize. They can increase, God dang it, I can't remember the word. Anyway, how quickly things can get bigger. That was a great vocabulary.
Speaker 1:And you know, something that our listeners can do is download the episode. They could download the episode, they can pay it forward to us and if they really like it, they can tell their friends about it and they can download the episode. Just think, and then that would get bigger.
Speaker 2:They could share it with three friends.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and so much.
Speaker 2:They appreciate that yeah okay.
Speaker 1:So just a little reminder there to wrap up to download the episode, and we would love to hear any stories that you might have, because these are definitely it's a feel good topic and, you know, something that we wanna be able to share, not just our experiences, like we have been in this episode. But we would love to hear some of the pay it forward stories that you all might have so that we can, you know, maybe read some of them.
Speaker 2:That'd be great, or that you've experienced, but also that you have shared with other people. Yeah, things that have touched your heart, yeah.
Speaker 1:So you can find us out on all the socials as well. You know we're gonna remind you about that. So like, share and follow us on all the social medias and, if you feel so inclined, drop us an email at ablandabrunnet and a mic at gmailcom. We would love to hear from you. So with that, what else do you want? Peace out.
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