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[SPEAKER_01]: and welcome back to grassroots marketing on cannibals for your dot com my next guest we've had featured on the program several times this year and you may remember all just give a bit of background just to recap yourself if you had a chance go ahead and look back for the interviews we did earlier in january and an august the founder of a clean call phrases back with once again you remember that we talked last time about the buddy and integration with the upling app to provide personalized cannabis recommendations and
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[SPEAKER_01]: We also talked about the functioning as a precision method tool that analyzes a user's end of cannibalistic system to match it with play genetics similar to 23 or me addressing user trust by offering survey options a community created recommendations and we introduced the upling up to the audience back in January, but we're back once again for a good reason because a call now has been working on
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[SPEAKER_01]: the issue that happened with Hurricane Melissa and I know we were talking about it but you know here in South Florida where I'm at you know of course we always paid to the hurricane season we were we were concerned about what hurricane Melissa was going to do not necessarily because of any impact to our community but we saw what was going to happen to our friends in the career in just south of us or to the south east of us and you know what are my favorite places
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think a lot of news has really amplified the amount of damage it was done there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And with that, we want to go ahead and focus on what Con has team has been doing right now to go ahead and help those folks there because they could really use it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, Con, you were teaming up with Jamaica and the DMV and can actually make it and cookies should make it to support local growers that is
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[SPEAKER_01]: nonprofit grass to grace give me the what was it that initiated the idea of sets go ahead and do this we need to go ahead and do something back what was it I was your personal reason for it and what was it that brought the idea to fight
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, first I just want to say thank you for inviting us back on to come and talk about this issue.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, what first brought it on is that Upling has a nonprofit call from grass to grass where we just help a lot of grass with people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We do a lot of workforce development and entrepreneurship in the cannabis industry.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And in this case, Upling has strong ties to Jamaica, we team up with cookies, Jamaica out there, we do delivery for them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we just couldn't stand by and just watch the devastation happening and not do anything about it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we teamed up from grass to grace, hence being the name, you know, from grass to grace, you know, and so this seemed like the perfect opportunity to be able to set a belief out there not only just full clothes, et cetera, et cetera, everybody else is doing, but we're highlighting specifically the growers, you know, the growers have been hit hard.
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[SPEAKER_00]: agriculture was big, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: So let me give you guys a little bit of temp it is that where was hit in St. Elizabeth is known as the bread basket of Jamaica.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's where a lot of the agriculture happens where a lot of things are grown there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And yes, we want to continue to send food.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But how long are we going to send food and not rebuild the infrastructure that they had for agriculture?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now,
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know cannabis, but kind of who are vegetables, fruits, banana, you know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_00]: We want to be able to help the growers rebuild the soil, get back their tents, the rules for ripped off, get back roofing, the sink, roofs, you know, and be able to help them out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that only will get resources for them, so they could be good now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But then so they could rebuild the infrastructure that they once lost.
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[SPEAKER_01]: because the bottom line isn't Jamaican, remember going through and making the trip where when I got the visit in the grill, we had to go in flying to Montego Bay and then take that trip, you know, hour and a half or so into the grill and see the kind of homes that were along the shoreline that, you know, they were just not built for any kind of major hurricane, a category five like this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This was devastation and incorporated and no one
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I mean, there's, when you look at those areas, they don't have, you know, what we have here where we have a certain code that might be a little good with stand, you know, hurricane winds or storms or or even storm surge.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now,
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[SPEAKER_01]: You make mentioned point how the local growers there are the backbone of Jamaica's agricultural industry, not just the statistics, their families, communities, and generations of agricultural knowledge at risk.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So is there any personal tie-in to either you or to people that are involved in this project where there are a lot of people that had family or friends in Jamaica that really caused?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I guess what was the extent, the expansive, the
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personal support I wanted to be
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, we, I definitely have family and friends still there in Jamaica, relatives on the countryside.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So not only that, but then when we teamed up, we put the call out there and say, hey, we want to send hammers, nails, tarps, we want to send this out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, from since the hurricane happened daily, I'm getting text messages, what's up videos, the devastation I was done out there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, we've just, as Upling just been in such a fortunate place here in America where, you know, we've been doing goodness in business, we want to be able to reach back.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's, that's the core of Upling in itself, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And now in Jamaica, we're helping out people who don't have anything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then now, there's been reported deaths because of the contaminated water.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you've had your livestock that drowned.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But then the sewage issue of people are still roaming around in the water, trying to find out, you know, find their loved ones or just re-established things.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And they're not protected safely, you know?
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we did two shipments.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One went out November 8th and we just sent one last Sunday, the 26th, you know, sorry, the 23rd of November.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And in this shipment, we sent gloves, we sent antibiotics, we sent gauze, we sent these things to protect them from being able to go forth and say, hey, we got your back.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we want you to stay alive and do it safely.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you made a point with M&J daily.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You made the point in this quote and a very important of the point in quote when disaster strikes, we don't stand aside, we stand together.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And what you've done so far, whatever is, along with what you're doing right now, the goal is for $50,000 in direct financial systems, defective growers, remedient needs and crop recovery.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And now it would be supply, seeds, equipment to help farmers restart cultivation.
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[SPEAKER_01]: with the fact that it was 45,000 farmers, according to the rule, agricultural development authority that were affected with the cost of damage, over almost $16 million.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And this was the role parts of the make where banana coca farms were severely damaged, incredible.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so far, tell me about what you've gotten in terms of the response back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And at this point, just tell us, let's just look at this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We have things up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I want to just give people to the website as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: which actually there's a PayPal you can go and do to right now it's more quickly where is the best place for those to go ahead and send so they can donate.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So the best place to go right now is WWE that from grass to grace, that old RNG.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're doing this through, we have a campaign that's out right now through give butter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is a verified nonprofit, so you can give safe and secure and know that the funds are being rolled out there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you guys check out our LinkedIn page, just check me out, put it in Colin Fraser, and look at the efforts we put forth.
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[SPEAKER_00]: of goods that went out to Jamaica like we want to show people where their money is going right we're not only talking about it but as soon as we said it we did it you know and one thing that between um uplink grass to graze oracle um
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[SPEAKER_00]: innovations in another organization called Indigenous and Harvest in the Continental Church we're borrowing that 2,026 were sending relief every single month for 12 months in 2020 because you know this is not a one-in-done.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, these men and women in children are going to need relief throughout the rest of the year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're dedicating saying, hey, we're going to send resources every month for 12 months in 2026.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can help out now from grass to grace that work from grass to grace that word.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I see now it was about three weeks ago that I learned about.
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[SPEAKER_01]: this charity that was being set up for the folks devastated by the hurricane hurricane Melissa in Jamaica and so far with a 50,000 hour goal at the one I see it's now a 34,000 dollars good start but now we're looking for listeners out there if you this is the time of giving the season so if you're able to then please go ahead and then go to the website from grass2grace.org and help out and call what a great thing that you're doing here for the folks there
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[SPEAKER_01]: And really appreciate you taking time out of good talks about it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, thank you so much.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Go out and support.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We know it's a holiday season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There are plenty of ways, plenty of people you can give to try giving a little bit to people who have no house, no food, no shelter.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks so much.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll talk you soon.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks a lot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Have a good weekend, enjoy your holidays.