Inside Baths for the Brave: Serving the Veterans Who Have Served Us with Guest Senja Spelman

Oh my gosh, it's my favorite time of the year.

I feel like as soon as it's done, I'm already planning for the next year.

And not only because we all get to come together as a team in individual companies and really have everyone inside your entire organization be involved, but also because you see the effects reverberate throughout just the veteran.

You see their family feels...

so much support and gratitude to see community members come out.

And there really is this sense of family of community that stays with you for a really long time, at least until the next year.

Yeah, it's terrific.

So best for the brave, if you're not familiar with it, it once a year, we, we surprise veterans with free shower systems, veterans that struggle with mobility issues, veterans that have a bathtub that is in their home and they're afraid to step over it because it's dangerous.

And we, And we all think that's simply unacceptable.

So our way of giving back is by surprising these veterans, by taking out that old bathtub, putting in a beautiful, safer shower for them, and doing it all for free.

And it's not a nonprofit.

It's a movement where we all participate across the country in surprising veterans just in time for Veterans Day, all at the same time with free, safer shower systems.

That's kind of what the program is, right? Would you say that's a good summary of it?

Yeah, I love that.

I think you phrased it so well when you said it's not a nonprofit.

It's really all of us coming together to support one another and make sure that we have all the resources and all of the know-how to do what we do best, which is install great bathrooms for deserving people.

Yeah, and that's really where you step in, which we're going to cover in a minute, because sometimes it's like, well, I want to do it, but I don't know where to start.

You've really done a great job creating SOPs and all that sort of thing to really help these contractors get up and rolling with Bats for the Brave.

And look, our goal is very simple, right? It's 50 states this year.

That's our goal.

How can we get in all 50 states? Last year, I think we were in 20 some odd states.

So far we've done, I think it's a staggering number.

It's hundreds of veterans across the country have received free shower systems.

We've been doing this for years.

And each time it's a special year, isn't it?