Exploring Hearts Knit Together: A Community Tour

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Hey everyone, and welcome to the inner
workings of the not so genius mind.

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I'm your host, Amanda McCombs,
and I'm also Mrs. Daybreak.

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Um, you can find me at Instagram.

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I would really, really love,
love, love a follow if you're

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here and you're listening.

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Um, follow me on Instagram
at not so genius.

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And then on YouTube, if you're
watching hi, um, my YouTube channel

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right now only has five subscribers.

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Come on, guys.

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Blink, blink, blink.

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You guys that are listening and can't see
me, I'm doing a blank stare at the camera.

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Anyway, um, as things have been gearing
up for the pageant, I have been doing

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tons and tons and tons and tons of
interviews with the contestants.

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Just kind of getting to know them
and share their stories because we

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are scattered all over the state.

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Um, So, I'm sprinkling some other
things in there because, you know,

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life keeps going even though I'm
getting ready for the pageant.

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Um, and then this is just, I think
a while ago, one of the episodes

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a minute ago, I talked about how
I was going to do a charity gala

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for my birthday, and guess what?

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It happened.

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We raised 1, 400 at my silent
auction for Hearts Knit Together.

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Um, that's the non profit that
I went to raise money for.

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And then I had a really, I had a really
good, Turnout from the community.

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It just, it really helped a lot to have
people come and show up for me because

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it was my birthday and I'm not used to
people showing up for me and really I

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didn't want gifts or presents or anything.

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I just wanted to take a moment and
help other people because I think we

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forget how fortunate we are and we
take a lot of our lives for granted.

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Um, But after the gala, I mean,
I could have just Venmoed it, I

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mean, that would have been easy.

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But, um, I asked my friend to come with
me and we went on a little tour of the

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facility because hearts knit together.

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They had a flood and so they had to
move from the one building to North

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Salt Lake and from North Salt Lake
all the way down to Lehigh or Alpine

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or wherever it is, Utah County.

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Um, and I didn't get to see the facility.

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So I went to see the new
facility and it is beautiful.

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And the work they do is just so tender.

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They really put a lot of TLC into
everything that they're doing.

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So I went and I got to meet a lot of
the people that work there regularly.

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And we got to take a tour and see.

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The happenings see everything in progress.

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It was really, really cool.

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So what you're about to see next
is in here because we interviewed

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so podcast and YouTube, everybody
come together and listen.

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We went on a little tour of the
facility and it was just really cool.

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It was cool.

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So that's what you're going to see next.

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I got to talk to April who runs it.

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Her parents founded it and we're
going to get to hear her story.

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So thanks for hanging
around and stay tuned.

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We have a lot of really
cool stuff happening.

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So thank you.

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Hello everyone and welcome back.

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I hope you enjoyed your tour of
the Hearts Knit Together facility.

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I, I loved going there.

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I've been so busy, I haven't been
able to go back since, and I know

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time is wibbly wobbly all over the
place when you're in podcast land.

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Um.

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This recording is happening way after
that one just because I prerecorded a

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bunch of episodes and did the pageant.

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The pageant is over.

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I'm no longer Mrs. Daybreak.

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I'm now Mrs. Utah.

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But don't get too excited 'cause it was,
it's through a different pageant system

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and that's a whole nother long story.

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So I really hope that you stay
tuned and that you get to see all

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of the amazing things that Ride
the Wave Media is getting ready.

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To present the podcast has a
website, not so genius podcast.com.

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Um, and my nonprofit also has a website.

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I'm in the middle of
putting it together still.

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It's not so genius mind.com, and I am
working on putting all kinds of resources

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in there to help people navigate trauma
and healing and to help each other, right?

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Because.

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That's what we need.

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On that note, we also have, I have
more information for Harn together.

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Their new facility is down in Linden.

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You can find their website
at www.heartknittogether.org.

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Um, you can also check their
social media everywhere.

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Just look up heart knit
together, uh, weekly.

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They'll post what we need Wednesday
and they'll have different call

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outs for things that they need.

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They're always taking donations,
monetary donations, in-person donations.

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If you wanna gather up anything, um, go
over and head to their website or let

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me know, and I'm happy to point you in
the direction that you need to go in.

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So thanks for hanging out with me and I
hope you enjoyed this onsite location Tour

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of the Heart Knit Together facility with.

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Mean the not so genius, Amanda McCombs.

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Goodbye.