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Welcome to the Yoga Nation, the Spirit of Gratitude podcast on the OneTech platform.
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Hello, friends.
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My name is Yogesh Patel, and this podcast explores the themes of bullying, self-awareness, and the power of our inner spirit, including the silent battles we all face.
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Join me every week as I invite high-profile guests as we explore how adversity shapes us, how gratitude lifts us, and how we can all uncover the inner strength that we all have within ourselves.
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Join the conversation.
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I appreciate you listening in.
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Patricia's work centers on strengthening communities and amplifying stories that inspire real positive change.
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Her perspective is grounded in a long island upbringing shaped by two parents in public service, a nurse and a police officer.
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Where responsibility and helping others weren't optional, they were expected, and I can certainly relate to that.
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A lot of what we'll talk about today mirrors the best of Ted Lasso: kindness, optimism, and a belief in people.
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Patricia is going to give us a chance to go behind the scenes of the Anthem Awards, what they stand for, how they choose winners, and why someone should care.
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I'm excited for this episode, folks, and with gratitude.
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Welcome to the podcast, Patricia.
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Thank you so much for having me.
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I'm so excited to be here.
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Honor and pleasure is all mine, Patricia.
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Thank you.
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I mean, it's amazing what the Anthem Award has done personally for me, as I'm being noticed and recognized differently, even amongst my friends, circle, and family circle.
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So it's it changes my perspective in terms of not necessarily what I'm doing, but what the podcast is doing to put some good messaging out there in the world.
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So thank you.
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That's amazing.
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And this is actually my first time on an Anthem Award-winning podcast.
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So myself as well.
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Cheers to water.
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Well, Patricia, what are the Anthem Awards?
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And how did you and the committee select the spirit of gratitude to take bronze?
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So the Anthem Awards are a social impact award, and we're recognizing individuals, companies, nonprofits, and really everything in between for the good work that they're doing around creating impact in the world.
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And so we're recognizing work across seven cause areas from DEI to education, health, human and civil rights, humanitarian action, responsible technology, and sustainability, environment and climate.
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And that's a lot.
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Yes, it is.
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And we have an incredible panel of judges that are experts from all of these areas and across the globe.
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And they do the incredible work of going through all of the submitted work each year.
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Um, last year we had more than 2,000 entries from, I want to say, 40 countries around the globe.
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So it was such an incredible year, such a beautiful breadth of work coming from individuals that are doing kind of more grassroots efforts and community organizing to podcasters like yourself, spreading such positive messaging and stories with individuals and communities around the world, to even organizations like the AERP and UNICEF that are doing some of these really large scale, incredible campaigns.
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But all of this work is creating impact in communities and it all serves such specific purpose.
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And that's what really makes the Anthem Award special is we recognize work, big, small, and everything is really about how organizations and individuals are accomplishing their goals.
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So what we need to look at is what did you actually set out to do?
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Is it inspiring a community?
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Is it touching multiple countries across the globe and creating a global impact?
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What is it that you're actually trying to do?
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And what impact are you having towards that?
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How are you making progress?
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How are you really doing this work on the day-to-day to change minds and change lives?
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And that's what we're judging on.
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And so anyone can participate, anyone can really win an Anthem Award for the incredible work that they're doing.
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But at the end of the day, it is a competition and our judges do that really hard work of digging into the work and really trying to understand what is setting certain projects apart and really trying to get to know these organizations that are entering on a deeper level.
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And for them, what we hear time and time again is that it is such an inspiring experience just to see all of the good work happening and to just be reminded of how many people in this world care about creating change in such a deep way.
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And I think a lot of that is what landed you in Anthem Award this past year as well is that passion and that spirit and desire to just change hearts and minds and bring people along for such a powerful ride.
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Oh, that's uh that's a very eloquent and well-stated answer.
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I mean, there's many facets to what you just mentioned.
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I mean, I think the first of all is the community impact that we're all making together.
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Uh, that's certainly one theme, but the other is the judges and the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, correct?
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I mean, that seems to be a pretty powerful organization tied to the Anthem Awards in terms of choosing these winners.
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Yes.
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So um, the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences was actually initially founded to judge the Webby Awards, which is our sister program.
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Um, and we have individuals from agencies, from global organizations, and everything in between.
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And when the Anthem Awards were first founded back in 2020, we saw a really perfect alignment with a lot of the individuals that were already a part of IADIS from the Webby Awards and these individuals that are creating these campaigns that already are leading these movements and creating public advocacy work and all of those types of things.
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So we were able to really see kind of a perfect way for us to build out this beautiful program from this existing community of experts that we had.
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And over the past five years, we've built out an entire segment of the academy specifically for the Anthem Awards and are brought on individuals from everything from the American Heart Association to Landolakes to um agencies like Edelman and McCann and organizations like GLAD and the NAACP.
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And it really, I think what I'm most proud of is how our academy also just reflects back the work that's being entered into the Anthem Awards in a really beautiful way.
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So everyone can see a little bit of themselves and their work and the judges, and the judges in the same way can see so much of the work that they're trying to do and the change that they're trying to create in the work that they're judging.
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Um, so that's been something that we've really worked hard to do to have that kind of mirror image.
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And I'm just eternally grateful for our judges for donating hours of their lives every year to help us kind of reviewing this work and determining and setting the standard for what good work looks like within that year.
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Yeah, and it's amazing.
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I mean, in from in terms of uh the big names that won uh the top prizes, included uh Vincent Stanley from Patagonia, my favorite clothing brand, Francis Tiafa, one of my favorite uh players on tour in tennis, and then Paris Hilton.
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Uh Boys will be boys.
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So it's cool to be part of this alumni of uh of the Anthem Award winners in 2025.
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Yeah, and I think this year we had a really amazing group of special achievement winners, um, some of the individuals that you just mentioned.
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And for us, I think, and for myself more specifically, I feel like it's such an incredible way to see who's just stepping up in kind of the public eye and really trying to use their platform to make a difference.
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Um, you mentioned Paris Hilton.
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She's been doing so much advocacy work for protecting children and using her own lived experiences to get laws passed in Congress and has really been an incredible advocate, along with kind of some of her family's philanthropy that happens as well.
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Um Stanley, truly an icon.
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He is so much of the backbone and like chief storyteller of Patagonia, and has worked so closely with Jan over, I guess, probably the past 50, 60 years now, just to build this company and prove that you can do business differently.
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And making a change and having such a strong backbone is incredibly important for building community around a brand as well.
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So I was incredibly honored to have him, especially at the event um where we celebrated our winners this year, to hear from him in person was really probably one of my top five favorite moments since I've been a part of the Anthem Award.
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It was definitely incredible.
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And speaking of big companies such as Patagonia, how exactly do you get these big companies to participate and contribute to these themes of what the Anthem Award stands for?
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And I guess it's all about the ROI of what these companies could do or should do.
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But what is the ROI for them in terms of partnering with the Anthem Awards?
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I would say overall, it's a lot of getting your work noticed.
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And so much of this kind of, and Patagonia is obviously a bit of a different organization because they're so centered in their impact work, where it is truly everything that they do is a part of that.
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Um, but for a lot of brands, the impact work isn't always the main story.
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It's happening on the side, it's a little bit more not on the homepage of the website, but you have to click a little bit to get to some of these stories and what they're really doing.
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And it really can be so much of the heart of the business, but it isn't always mainstage.
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So even for these larger organizations, in the same way it does for the smaller organizations, it puts the work on a higher platform.
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And I think so much of what's important about the Anthem Awards and awards in general is being able to celebrate the team and the individuals that are doing this work on the day-to-day basis.
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And I'll say this a lot, but within Impact, we don't pat ourselves on the back very often.
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So much of what we're trying to accomplish is 10, 20, 50, 100 years in the future.
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It feels like we are always on the hamster wheel and there's always more to do.
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And with that kind of culture, we don't stop and celebrate the small things in the same way that we should.
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We don't celebrate kind of these milestone achievements like campaigns and things like that in the same way that we should.
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It's because so much of what we're thinking about is still, well, we didn't do this yet.
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But as I see it, we have to stop.
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We have to pause, we have to celebrate our work.
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We need to pat ourselves on the back because that's how we recharge and really have these moments to repower our work and our inspirations and what we're working towards to make it that next 20, 50, 100 years in the future.
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And so the Anthem Awards is a really powerful platform to, again, just let organizations kind of have that moment of yes, we did good.
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Let's pause, let's celebrate this moment, let's know that the work that we're doing is making a difference, it's hitting this benchmark for what good work is, and let's celebrate that.
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So I think that's an important part of all of this, whether you're a bigger brand like a Patagonia, a Bobby, Rare Beauty, so many of those folks, or if you're a smaller organization too, we're all kind of on this hamster wheel of change, as I call it, um, that sometimes we have to pause and go to the Virgin Hotel for a cocktail together.
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Well, the work is never done, right?
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I mean, it's uh, you know, even for me, it's okay.
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I come from a technology sales background, so it's what have you done for me lately?
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And and not to say it in a negative way, but it's just it pushes you more to do more, right?
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And to reach out to more people, whether that for me, uh, my look at the board, I'm looking at it right now and to my right, is you know, it's not necessarily the good work that I'm doing, but it's the good messaging that's being told by storytellers like yourself that can inspire uh something within a person to make them reflect and to learn something about themselves.
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Yeah.
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So I get that.
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And then take us back to again from the Anthem Award itself, how does that apply to a community, whether that be a school or a neighborhood?
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I mean, certainly we want to celebrate the good work that these organizations are doing, but how does it actually impact your neighbor, so to speak?
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I would say within a lot of the community work that we recognize, it's a lot of being able to prove to people that what we're doing matters in a different way.
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And we'll see this from organizations, whether it's kind of bringing in new donors, especially as you think about more grassroots work.
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People are like, what is this?
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And should I almost like trust this organization?
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They're so new.
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How do I know if they're gonna actually do this work and stay around and all of those things?
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So being able to have this third party recognition is a really powerful tool for smaller organizations to kind of have that seal of approval and be able to go to potential donors, potential volunteers, people like that, and be able to say, we're an anthem winner, we're doing good work.
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We've had kind of this third party review our programs, and they have said this organization and this work matters.
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And so that's really powerful for younger organizations to be able to go out and have that seal of credibility to bring people into the fold and get them excited.
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I've also heard from a lot of organizations that this is something that they're including in grant proposals, whether it's for$20,000 or seven-figure grant proposals, they're calling out that they're an anthem winner and that this is something that matters and proves that their work is having a difference.
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And this funder should want to be a part of that for that reason.
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So it really is something that can be utilized, whether you are a smaller organization just getting your start and wanting to kind of have that level of credibility to bring people into the fold, or kind of you're more established, you're still doing some of this community work, but you're trying to level up, you're trying to bring more people into the fold.
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You need this kind of scalability and everything like that.
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It's again that great way to bring people in and prove to them that we're doing good work and we're no, we know that because I addis told us so.
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This is interesting, Patricia, because you just bring so much passion to your work.
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And how did you choose service to others to be your life's work?
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Where does this take take us back?
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Take us to maybe uh the little girl in you, Patricia, growing up in Long Island.
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Yeah, growing up on Long Island, I feel like very traditional 90s kid childhood.
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Um, and also in the Long Island sense, I grew up with a mom that was a nurse and a father that was a police officer.
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And so much of what was focused on as I was growing up was kind of service and helping others.
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And that was such a common theme with um for most of my childhood.
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My mom was working in the emergency room and seeing so many different people from so many backgrounds and having so much of that just care for others and understanding of different people's experiences and her bringing that back into our home and telling us these stories and really trying to build that level of understanding of one another.
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And I think that was something that was very powerful from a young age of just having some of these conversations and stories and seeing our parents kind of step into different roles and volunteer their time in different ways.
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Even when I was younger as well, after 9-11, um, my dad was actually a he was retired at the time, but came out of retirement to do search and recovery at ground zero for almost a year and partnered together with a group of other retired officers and volunteered his time and just wanted to give families closure and find remains for them and be able to do some of that work.
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So did that take an emotional toll on him that perhaps he told you or the rest of uh of your family?
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Um, yes, it definitely did.
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I think it was such a challenging moment in time.
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And I think you think about being a younger kid and not having that kind of wherewithal to understand how big that moment was in some ways.
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And now looking back on it now, I'm like, what was going on?
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He was like, Yeah, weren't having that was not fun.
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That was not a good moment of like even kind of years after as you deal with some of that PTSD.
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Um, but I do think again, it was just such a big part of I think just seeing my life and wanting to do more in some way.
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And I mean, they set an extremely high standard that I don't think I will ever reach.
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But shadows too long, huh?
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A little bit, but I think it was something though that kind of powered me to kind of think about how you can do more.
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And being, I think, as the more and more I thought about what I wanted to do with my life and going through college and the rigmarole of uh what does what's your five-year plan, what's your 10-year plan, and all of those things, I kept coming back to this idea of just like wanting to feel more and feel like I'm doing more rather than just getting a paycheck.
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And I think that kind of like triple bottom line approach was something that was instilled in me from a young age, and I wasn't even able to kind of realize it for a number of years.
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But I think the workforce in general is becoming more of that as well.
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It's beyond just the nine to five.
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What impact am I making?
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Yeah, and I think that personal impact we're seeing across the space right now as well.
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We'll even hear it from nonprofits that as people are coming back and like what they want from their stewardship is so much of like, what does my gift mean to the organization?
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What am I doing by giving to you?
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Rather than I feel like a little bit more of the hands-off tax philanthropy that maybe was a little bit more popular 20 years ago.
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But yeah, I think so much of how we orient ourselves and kind of I always call it kind of like my triple bottom line approach to life, is important.
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And as we have more people thinking about their lives and what they can accomplish in that type of way, the better we can all move forward.
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Because even as we think about how we hold the companies we work for accountable.
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Um, I think in this past year, as we saw some companies stepping away from some of their philanthropic sides of things or breaking down DEI programming or things like that, we saw people really starting to rise up and stand up to these organizations, whether employed by them or even just shoppers, as we saw with some companies like Target.
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People wanted, they want to align themselves with organizations and brands and all different areas of their lives that align with their personal values.
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And I think as we kind of have a little bit of a reset in 2026, that's what's going to be the main driver here is coming back to what are my values?
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What are the things that I care about that power me forward?
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And how do I do a better job of just shaping my life to fit some of those things?
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Right.
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Well, and speaking of 2026, what are the 2026 goals for the Anthem Awards this year?
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In 2026, the Anthem Awards are really focused on just being a part of the moment.
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And I think one of the best ways that we can do that is sharing stories of the work that's happening, how people are going about some of this work, and really just what are also some of the mechanics behind how people are able to share their stories and do some of this good?
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I feel like for so many organizations, it can feel daunting to get on a new platform, kind of get into short form content and do some of those different things.
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So, a main thing that I want to hop into is sharing a little bit more of the behind the scenes and how-tos of how are organizations doing some of this work?
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How are they creating content, creating this online persona in a different way?
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And how can we just do a better job of equipping the Anthem Awards community with some of these tools and tactics to do what they do even better?
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So that's one part of it.
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And then the other part that I already kind of mentioned is the storytelling aspect.
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And how do we really platform what good work is and tell these stories and be a little bit of a stronger support for some of the organizations and winners within our community and be a platform for them and really kind of share these powerful stories and again bring people back to what are my values?
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How do I better align myself with some of this work?
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And also how do we realign our algorithms to also kind of share some of these positive stories?
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Because my God, it is doing yes, I think uh we all share in that same uh, I'm not gonna say struggle, but challenge to make our voices heard, amplified, uh, to where, you know, again, it's barring a tagline from you, making good famous.
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I love it.
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But tell me what that means to you.
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Yeah, so that's actually an organization that I love what they're Doing the Elevate Prize Foundation and their main mission is around how to make good famous.
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And I just find the way that they're platforming organizations, the way that they're elevating this work so inspiring and something that I think the Anthem Awards can step into a little bit more and really be a part of that work and just do some of that for our community of leveling up the content that they're creating to share with the world and get people excited about some of these organizations that honestly might not have come across their plates without the Anthem Awards kind of being that conduit as well.
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So I think that's a really exciting place for us to continue to grow and to continue to kind of create content around as well.
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And as I mentioned too, kind of even looking at some of these incredible projects, but then also having conversations with the teams behind them, better understand how'd you guys actually do this and what resources did it take and how much time did it take to kind of produce this campaign and some of those logistics that none of us know off the top of our heads, but always kind of crave that information of how did they get together and how did they create such a beautiful, powerful piece?
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And did they work with an agency perhaps, or do they have functions internally to help create some of this content?
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And all of those things that I know run through my mind.
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So part of this is going to be my own personal kind of questions that come to my mind and come to the forefront of my head as I'm even just scrolling through LinkedIn sometimes and trying to figure out how to be how did they do this?
00:23:31.440 --> 00:23:43.519
Well, curious, what projects uh you know, what were some of the project, some of the more memorable projects uh from past year that that you want to share or that you remember?
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Oh, that is such a good question.
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Of course, Young Bation being one of them.
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Yes.
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And I also have to shout you guys out as well because something we do with the Anthem Awards each year is our Anthem Community Voice celebration, which is a public voting campaign to just again get eyes on some of the things.
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I went into politician mode, so I if we could have given like an anthem team's like best campaign of the year, I think it might have been you guys.
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Our social media team got so excited every time that they were getting tagged in one of the Yog Nation's posts.
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I didn't know that.
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Thank you.
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They loved it.
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Um, so a little kudos to you as well.
00:24:24.720 --> 00:24:30.880
Backyard Barbecue, I think that was one of also one of my uh shout outs to the Anthem Award.
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Love that.
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But with the work this year, there were so many different things.
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I know there was a campaign from ELF Cosmetics and Rare Beauty.
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So great to see some of these kind of bigger brands that we all know and love stepping more and more into this space, creating more content around just how brands can kind of do both and have some of this more kind of product-driven side of their work, but at the same time, really naturally weave in some of these conversations around impact and what this work means to them and how they see this brand as a platform to But is there an end result though?
00:25:08.319 --> 00:25:10.000
That's I guess that's what I'm trying to understand.
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It's like, yes, we're being recognized for our work, it's giving us more attention.
00:25:14.720 --> 00:25:22.160
Again, maybe ROI wasn't the right word, but again, for the average person who sees this and says, oh, that's interesting.
00:25:22.319 --> 00:25:24.240
Again, it goes back to the end result.
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And I again, I've always subscribed to this theory that rising tide lifts all boats, right?
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If I'm good, my neighbor's good, we all benefit all together.
00:25:31.680 --> 00:25:35.680
But is there perhaps an end result that you've seen as a result of the Anthem Award?
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It looks so different based off of the organizations that enter.
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I think overall, so much of it too also comes down to what the teams want coming in from the Anthem Awards.
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Because so much of I think what winning an Anthem is is what you make of it.
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Are you sharing it online?
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Are you kind of participating in different ways to like an Anthem Community Voice to help get your voice out there and kind of have that platform?
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Um, are you using this within different materials to for grant applications and things like that?
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Um, also for organizations, some of them like we announce our winners every year in November as we go into kind of end of year giving season.
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So our organizations utilizing this fresh, incredible news to energize their donor base and let them know that this work matters and your previous donations and things like that have powered us to this point.
00:26:29.279 --> 00:26:36.640
And thank you for being a part of this community and let's keep it going and kind of having it as a little bit of that rallying cry as well.
00:26:36.799 --> 00:26:48.000
Um, are they using kind of this new platform to, from more of an agency or consultant or PR perspective, using this as also a point of we do really great work?
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It has this third-party assurance, and this is why you should hire us and be part of our community and the work as well.
00:26:56.319 --> 00:26:56.640
Yeah.
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So it's can you how do you get business from this?
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How can you bring in new donors?
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How can you kind of excite and elevate your existing volunteer and donor base?
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And I think also, Patricia, there's a sense of alignment, right, with who we are as individuals.
00:27:12.079 --> 00:27:26.079
Again, that's where this self-awareness comes in and this spirit of gratitude, where you know, if I want to, if I think of myself as a good person, I want to be with other like-minded individuals and organizations that share the same values.
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And for me to, you know, contribute five, 10, 50, whatever the amount is, to say this is an extension of me that I'm giving to support this organization.
00:27:36.799 --> 00:27:39.680
Yeah, I think, and we people have craved that.
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I think that's been one of the biggest things that we've seen even since the pandemic, is this desire to come together and to find our community.
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And even through the technology we have available right now, there are so many opportunities for us to find these places and spaces that have the work that inspires us, that have communities that really we want to be a part of and move forward with and support in different ways.
00:28:04.640 --> 00:28:08.720
And the Anthem Wards community is a powerful one at that.
00:28:08.880 --> 00:28:35.519
And I think something I'm excited about as we get into this year and moving forward is just finding new ways to get this group of people together, whether through some more in-person events happening around the country, through virtual conversations that we can be having, um, all of these different areas where let's come together, let's have these conversations, let's utilize this connection to like-minded individuals and folks that know the work that we're doing and can help us in different ways.
00:28:35.599 --> 00:28:48.400
And we can kind of bounce ideas and questions off of and really build these relationships in such a deeper manner that I know for myself is such an exciting opportunity that we can step into in the year ahead.
00:28:48.720 --> 00:29:01.519
And yeah, I feel like there's so much power in community and organizing, and it's really incredible when we find our people and have it's almost like a little bit of an exhale.
00:29:01.680 --> 00:29:09.759
And another place where I think there's a lot of gratitude is being able to find those places and spaces that we align with in such a deep way.
00:29:10.079 --> 00:29:26.640
And speaking of gratitude, again, my definition of it consists of five pillars in terms of what makes gratitude stand out as a foundation for an individual, and that is courage, resilience, awareness, appreciation, humility.
00:29:26.799 --> 00:29:38.319
And in our pre-planning call, when I asked of these five pillars, what it what is most representative of you, you chose appreciation, how and why.
00:29:38.799 --> 00:29:46.640
Yeah, I feel like it's one of those things where you can make an argument for every one of those pillars because they're all such important parts of this.
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But for me, in in this kind of phase of life, it really is appreciation.
00:29:52.000 --> 00:29:56.480
It's appreciation to be able to be in a role like this, to be able to see this work.
00:29:56.640 --> 00:30:14.960
I mean, I have such an incredible job where I get to come into work each and every day and see the good work that's happening and feel inspired and feel such a connection to the space and these creators and really just have a deep connection back to this.
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And though I'm not kind of a practitioner doing this work day in and day out the way so many organizations and nonprofits on the front lines are, I think it's increased my appreciation for those individuals and for the organizations that are doing such hard work and are creating real impact.
00:30:32.400 --> 00:30:53.839
So seeing so much that's happening, really kind of staying on the beat of the space generally has just made me so appreciative of so many things and especially of the position that I've been able to be in and being able to create so many incredible relationships with individuals that tell such interesting stories and elevate this work in different ways.
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It's just really wonderful.
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And so I really from the heart.
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I think that's that's the source of uh of inspiration for me.
00:31:03.359 --> 00:31:08.960
And as we wrap up this uh incredible segment, Patricia, again, wanted to thank you for coming on.
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I'll give you the final word.
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Is there anything that I missed that you'd like to share to the community at large?
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I'll just say that we are always welcoming of new individuals to our Anthem Awards community.
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Um, we will be opening up our entries for the year in early April.
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So stay tuned for that.
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You can follow us online at the Anthem Awards on all social media platforms, and we're also online at AnthemAwards.com.
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So check us out.
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Come join us in this beautiful community.
00:31:41.119 --> 00:31:46.240
And also just thank you so much for the work that you do for bringing me on today.
00:31:46.480 --> 00:31:50.640
And also a final congratulations for your 2025 Anthem one.
00:31:51.039 --> 00:31:51.279
Thanks.
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I'm not a celebrity yet like Paris Hilton, but uh I aspire to be.
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All right.
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Thank you, Patricia.
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Take care and bye for now.
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Thank you so much.
