Erie

They had the first pick in the second round that year.

And Chris Knobloch had coached Alex in Erie.

And he had ended up scoring 60 goals that year, too.

And then, you know, three-time 40-goal score.

when we found out that we were going there, of course I went and I watched paranormal.

And I kind of looked for the family, you know, I never would reach out to them, but I looked for the family and I only, I only found one daughter that I think she's an Erie.

I think the dad and the mom of both since passed away, but I looked at what we did.

We did a lot of research on them.

This is Stephanie Crone Overholtz.

And at the time that she disappeared, she was 47 years old and she had just moved from Erie, Pennsylvania to Florida to, unfortunately, Kessler's community.

She is the mother of three sons, Sean, Greg, and Zach.

They met, apparently, Kessler and Stephanie met at a McDonald's.

And the leg unfortunately is Stephanie's it bears.

a tattoo with the name of her three sons.

And on that same day, November 11th, is when her mother actually reports her missing in Erie, Pennsylvania, because as far as she knew, that's where she was, was in Erie, Pennsylvania.

So at the same time she's being reported missing in Pennsylvania, parts of her body are being located in Lutz, sorry, it's Lutz in McKay Bay.

What does the minutiae of 19th century train track ages have in common with the challenges of modern data infrastructure? Other than both being intensely nerdy and interesting, more than you'd think.

In 1853, workers at a railroad junction in Erie, Pennsylvania built a complex transfer system, unloading cargo from one set of tracks onto another.

Quite a profitable operation.

But it sounds like a logistical nightmare, right? Why would they take on such a difficult task? They had to deal with a mismatch in the tracks.

A passenger heading from Buffalo to Cleveland had to change trains twice, once at the New York border, once in Erie.

The trains were timed to connect, but delays were common.

Connections were missed, and travelers found themselves unexpectedly stranded overnight in Erie.

journey upon journey, thousands of transfers stacking up over years, all that effort, all that friction, without ever addressing the core issue, the tracks.

Now, I am also preparing to go to Pennsylvania.

I have an opportunity to go to Pennsylvania to do a weekend training in Erie at Yoga Erie.

And that opportunity came to me because I had done an in-person training in Cleveland, Ohio, and the owner of Yoga Iri was there.

So she followed up with me afterwards and said, hey, can you repeat this training at my studio? I think my teachers would really love it.

And so I'll be flying out to Erie the first weekend in November, and that's a Saturday and Sunday training.

And so when I do these things in person, it just really solidifies for me how much I love doing these trainings in person and just my interest in finding some sort of in-person space that I can use here in Erie.

the Boston area for regular ongoing in-person trainings.

And so I guess for you, if that is something that you would be interested in, and I want you to think a little differently from sort of the standard go away yoga vacation type thing.

But corporates, true C Corp, because of their ability to apply the depreciation tax benefits to your income, it's a much faster payback to the corporate taxpayer than typically to the individual.

And then thirdly to the philanthropically minded, whether it's a foundation or a philanthropic individual that says, look, I grew up in Erie, Pennsylvania.

I don't like the fact that the average median income of the downtown corridor dropped to $11,000 per family.

I want to help bring it back.

There are people like that in Erie, in Baltimore, in Detroit, in Cleveland, almost in every community that we work.

And I think that those kinds of people are looking for the ability to use their philanthropic capital alongside Opportunity's own capital to ensure that good things go.

You want the right capital from the right investors going into the right projects.

I got people from Alabama.

I got people from Erie, Pennsylvania.

We're live at the green light.

Nashville, Tennessee.

I haven't been to Georgia, but I know that part of Pennsylvania quite well.

My mom grew up halfway between Erie and Pittsburgh, so I spend a lot of time.

Dubois, Punxsutawney, if those towns mean things to people, I know that part of the state quite well.

But I'm in Philadelphia now anyway, so continue.