And does it serve as a business? Does it serve as a ministry?

Absolutely.

So, so many times if a nonprofit or ministry of any kind form a coffee shop, it's in a church basement, out of town, and really not central to the community.

So we wanted to create something very different because exposure changes outcomes.

And we wanted to be in the center of Atlanta.

Our coffee shop is in the heart of Buckhead, which is kind of... place in Atlanta where people of influence and with resources are frequenting.

And that was very intentional because change must happen from people who have the access and the power and the finances to change it.

What can we do better instead of just checking the box? What can we do?

But the enduring and the trauma has propelled the joy.

It's crazy.

That's the best case scenario for the trauma, I think.

The best case scenario is that the trauma is actually the way to open you wide up, to see people differently, to deepen your compassion, to change, like...

Your emotional capacity to hold hard because you've lived through really hard.

So you see people differently.

You know, I cry a lot.

Yeah.

Mm

... brainstem stroke and very nearly died.

I was in a coma-like state for two and a half months, and then in a different part of rehab for several more months, and then a group rehab facility for over a year.

So it took about two years to relearn To speak, to eat, to walk, to stand up, and, um, I became a person living with profound disabilities, um, including, um, what I shared before, the, the use of a wheelchair and no fine motor in one hand and the paralyzed face and a, a number of other, um, issues.

And yet you didn't ask, but I'll tell you, in a way that paints a really hard, sad picture.

But my life is anything but hard and sad.

Yeah

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