Steve Williams ~ “Pouring Foundations” ~ An Outreach Program Helping Abused Women

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Gene Valentino: Hi friends, Gene Valentino and welcome back to another episode. Of Gene Valentino’s GrassRoots TruthCast. You know, we have episodes of all flavors and types throughout our season and uh, some are political and sometimes they’re social and political.

But this is really a social based interview today with Steve Williams. He’s from the Escambia County, Santa Rosa County region of the Panhandle of Florida. [00:01:00] Welcome aboard Steve. Thanks for joining me here on GrassRoots TruthCast. We’re gonna pour a foundation. Does that sound right? That’s

Steven Williams: it. That’s it.

Gene Valentino: We’re gonna pour a foundation. Now. I’ll bet you it’s not what you think it is. It’s a foundation of justice and care and concern, biblically based, and we’re reaching out to women and men, but women in particular who are in need of care and, uh, are in need of this care because of abuse. The, um, uh, mistreatment of women, uh, mothers, wives, uh, spouses that have been mistreated and it’s unfortunate but necessary that sometimes government and social agencies need to step out and help those who cannot help themselves.

Women in need is the focus of our conversation today, right after this.

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Gene Valentino: Welcome back to GrassRoots TruthCast folks, and [00:03:00] my guest today is Steve Williams from Pouring Foundations. Thanks for being with us, Steve. Thank you. This is a very good episode we’re having with, um, with Steve on Matters related to the care and concern.

Of women. Steve left a very good, lucrative, uh, job and ended up with, um, uh, his wife, his partner, uh, in a company called Pouring Foundations. Steve, I’ll let you start it. Let’s talk about where Pouring Foundations came from, where it is now, and where you’d like it to go.

Steven Williams: Wonderful. So it, it really just started off as a, as a burden in my heart.

Um. I came from a very broken family. My wife came from a very broken family, and it just kind of progressed into this really toxic lifestyle that we both lived for many years. Uh, we obviously we’re not living that lifestyle anymore. We, we’ve been able to have a foundation of our own poor in our lives, but what we have seen in our community, we have about a [00:04:00] 330,000 people roughly, I think is the number.

There’s just 330,000, 330,000 individuals in Escambia County. Escambia County, Florida. Yeah. Yeah. So there’s a huge need, a growing need for resources, stability, and the opportunity for women, and especially women with children, to have a sustainable future instead of just this, this constant, um. Rick Morris of a rollercoaster, if I could say it that way.

They go up and down, up and down, up and down, but there’s nothing solid for them to build upon. So what what happened in our, our life is, you know, we both work, we worked full-time jobs that we had our own business. We were doing some audio, video security stuff, and one day I felt this huge burden come on me and only way I can really describe it is it was a Lord given burden.

God spoke into my heart and told me to go into the fields.

Gene Valentino: I get, I’m so impressed with people who leave lucrative well-paid [00:05:00] business environment, jobs or careers and take that blind leap of faith into, uh, the Lord’s work and the do good. That’s, um, this, this world, this nation needs so desperately. Must have been scary for you making that jump.

Steven Williams: It, it took me a, a few months. I, I, I’m just be very, um, transparent here. I argued with God about it. I didn’t want to do it. I was scared to death. Um, well, what, what was the jump and what are you doing? So the jump was, I, uh, we closed the business and I started going out into the community and just meeting people and meeting them where they were and finding out what needs they really needed.

It wasn’t just, you know, the person on the side of the road asking for money, it was. The women or the individuals that were in these camps set up where nobody knew where they were and they didn’t have anything. So we were meeting people here and we were just started pouring in through our own pockets into these people’s lives and trying to help them find the su, [00:06:00] sustain the sustainability that they needed.

Whether, you know, they need a driver’s license, I can’t afford to get a driver’s license, so let’s go get ’em a driver’s license. Well, they need bus routes. So how can they get on the bus? How can they get transportation to get back and forth to a job they need showers. How can we provide these things? So we started slowly but surely finding ways that we could provide these things to ’em.

There are different areas in the community we, we were able to kind of partner with and use resources they had, but it was kind of limited and so it didn’t create anything for these individuals. So it kind of just kind of progressed through that. Um. For about a year. And, um, we met Michelle Salzman. Um, it, it, it was a God open door.

I had no idea who she was. I’m, I wasn’t big into the political scene that Yeah. Kind of stayed away from it. Um, I guess for more fear of ignorance of it. So

Gene Valentino: Michelle Salzman folks is our state representative for both, um, Santa Rosa and Escambia Counties. Uh, she’s also been helpful to me in my career path when I was [00:07:00] running for United States Congress, but what I found most interesting is she stepped out to help.

She’s helped on many good causes in the counties. Uh, this being one of ’em. I love the name pouring foundation. So you’re laying the foundation for a woman to get back on her feet and her children to get on her, uh, back on their feet? Yes. If, if she, if they have it, absolutely.

Steven Williams: Yeah.

Gene Valentino: And what

Steven Williams: are you doing for them?

So as of right now, what we’re doing is we’re, we’re, we’re providing a lot of housing assistance and food assistance. Um, I, I run a recovery program every night, and when people hear recovery, they immediately think, oh, well, they’re drug addicts. That’s not always what recovery is, right? Sometimes it’s mental health, sometimes it’s trauma, sometimes it’s just life’s hurts.

We need to have that, that avenue to be able to go talk about what’s going on and how, what’s the solution to overcome it? What’s, what’s that root inside of us that has got us here? Because it’s not just it. A lot of times it’s something we’ve done, but there are outside entities that create problems in our lives, and we need to learn how to weed those things out of our life.

Gene Valentino: You know, it’s [00:08:00] funny, um, maybe that’s what the attraction was because I’m a recovered alcoholic. Well, recovering alcoholic, you, the joke in the community is you’re never fully recovered, right? Uh, and so the coffee’s just great. Thank you. Uh, that’s all that’s in the cup here. I can promise you that. But, but, um, I must be attracted and that’s why I bumped into you.

I must be attracted to, um, people working to help others recover. Absolutely. And you’re correct. It has many flavors of recovery based on, based on the obsession. Sometimes we find ourselves obsessed with certain things around us and we have trouble shaking it. Absolutely. Uh, and I commend you for stepping in.

You leave a well paying private sector job to go into a recovery, um, service for others, right? Called pouring foundations. Yes, sir. What’s your website?

Steven Williams: It’s pouring foundations.org.

Gene Valentino: Pouring foundations.org. Yes. On that website, can they contribute to your cause? They

Steven Williams: can contribute to [00:09:00] a Donate Now button.

You can learn more about us. You all my contact information. I, I, I put my personal cell phone on there so people can contact me directly. Our mission statements on there, our board of directors, we’re starting to be able to upload a few more, um, testimonials from people we’ve helped. Good. So it’s, it’s growing.

The more we do, the more and kudo

Gene Valentino: kudos to Michelle Salzman, our state representative, because she helped reach out, uh, to the state, um, outsource funding programs to, uh, try to help. Pouring foundations as well. Uh, secure some funding. Uh, today, what’s the plan? What’s a typical day? Do you, how do you find out who’s a, a woman in need?

Uh, how do you find out how to help them?

Steven Williams: So, it comes in a lot of different ways. A lot of it’s word, word of mouth. We’ve made, um, a lot of contact with different organizations in the area. Um, bat Inca and Santa Rosa, this General area, um, and let them know what we do and what we can provide and what our goal is to help

Gene Valentino: them.

Um, are these battered women, abused women? Uh, a little bit, [00:10:00] yeah. Are they drug in

Steven Williams: afflicted? A little bit of all of it. I mean, we, we’ve ran into situations where somebody, you know, they’ve been out, they’ve just got out prison and they don’t have anything. Um, we, we ran into women that are running from a, a domestic violence situation, or someone that’s just.

Completely strung out and they, they won’t help at this point. You know, you can’t, you can’t leave a horse to water and expect it to drink by itself. So the domestic

Gene Valentino: violence situation could be a part, uh, of an overall. Uh, need that’s, uh, for recovery. I mean, it is, domestic violence is one aspect of a recovery plan.

Absolutely. Uh, and, uh, what are you doing with ’em when they come to you?

Steven Williams: So what we do is we, we, we find out where they are first. Okay. Where, where do you need the most help? What’s the foundational, what’s the foundational thing you need in your life? So it, it, it, some people are further along than others, so if they’re coming straight out, like domestic violence situations, they, they need mental health therapy.

They need, they need some [00:11:00] counseling. What keeps you in that chaos? Because at the end of the day, it is scary to leave those situations for whatever reason. Maybe I don’t wanna get too deep into that ’cause that’s a rabbit trail. Sure. But, uh. We, we, we wanna help them mentally first. We wanna help them get, get a sound mind, just as the Bible tells us we need a renewing of the mind.

So we try to help them renew the mind, change those neuropathways, change those toxic behaviors that keep us in situations that are causing the abuse. Not that they’re the cause of the abuse, but it, we can get out of the situations. So what’s the goal there? Right? So that’s where we have mental health.

Involved with this as

Gene Valentino: it all saying, uh, insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. That’s it. So, uh, changing, um, behavior is absolutely key and I commend you in pouring foundations for doing it. What, um, what is the pathway? What give, give us a few of the incidences, give us a few of the success

Steven Williams: stories.

So we, we, I, I’ll [00:12:00] start with the bad ’cause everybody, you know, they usually wanna start with all good, but I’ll start with the bad here. Um. We ran into a lot of roadblocks. Um, we’ve ran into people that, or women or even individuals, we do help other individuals of our main cause is the women. But we ran into where they, they say, okay, we want help.

This is what I’m doing. We start pouring a foundation for ’em, and they come in and they muddy up the waters, and then they’re back out doing the same thing. They muddy up their own waters. They do, they do. Um, and unfortunately you can’t do nothing about that, you know, but we’re, we’re starting to, we’re starting now to realize that we have to vet some.

Vets in situations. Okay, where are you at? Let’s really sit down and talk to you. What are you gonna do about this? Not that we’re discriminatory against anything, but we’re not just out to hand money to people. We we’re out to hand the foundation so they can build a life. There is money involved, obviously, that we have to have money in this cruel world so people can live.

So I mean that, that’s, I mean, would you cover the

Gene Valentino: rent for a month or two? Oh, we absolutely have shelter type of, we absolutely

Steven Williams: have. I. [00:13:00] Let’s just say over the past three months, we made sure that all through December we made sure multiple families had Christmas that couldn’t provide Christmas to their kids.

We made sure that their bills were paid. When they lost a job, we’ve made sure that they were able to get back and forth to work. I mean, it, it cost thousands of dollars sometimes, you know, and this day’s market, $2,500 a month doesn’t go very far. Sure. You know, and so we, we’ve had to, we’ve had a lot of situations where we do that, and it’s helped.

We in those situations, we’re starting to see, okay, this is giving them a little hope. ’cause when hope gets deferred, it makes you sick. You know, you get that depression going on and people usually cave in on themselves. They either cave in or you fight back. And a lot of times. We’re seeing that they cave

Gene Valentino: and these success stories, do you find any of the ladies who are what I would call a success story from your program then reciprocating and coming back in to help you out a little bit?

Steven Williams: Absolutely. So we have, I don’t wanna name their names on here. Sure. I haven’t got their permission to [00:14:00] do that, but we have 30 individual women that we have helped over the past year and a half that we have watched them where they’ve not had their kids. The state is giving them kid their kids back, they have their own jobs.

They have their own place now. And uh, what they’re doing is they’re showing other women, Hey, look, look, this is what they’re doing for us. This is how they helped us. Let us show you the path to get there. And that makes a, that, that helps us bridge a gap that we’re trying to bridge because it’s hard to trust somebody and this world tells you they’re gonna help you over and over and over again, but at the end of the day, they just keep their foot on your neck and try to hold you down.

And we’re seeing that being bridged by. Them reaching out and saying, Hey, they helped us here. And we will actually have, um, some testimonials given publicly next week as well. We’re doing a golf, a charity, golf tournament, and we have a few of our ladies that have actually volunteered to say, Hey, this is what Foreign Foundation has done for us.

Oh, that’s excellent.

Gene Valentino: Yeah. So, um, you know, sometimes the best testimony comes from those who’ve experienced the. Recovery program [00:15:00] you offer. Right. And the success they’ve enjoyed from it is the best test. There’s something better than you bragging about yourself.

Steven Williams: Yeah.

Gene Valentino: Is someone bragging about you? Right.

Right. And that’s good. By the way, folks, um, www.Genevalentino.com will be the website. And, uh, on the website you can also reach. Steve’s episode through www.GrassRootstruthcast.com. Grab the link. The best thing you can do for Steve is grab the link and share it with a thousand people. Yes. Getting the word out to everybody is key, um, not only for other, uh, funding sources for you, but for the victims that are out there wanting to know more about what you have to offer them.

Absolutely. Do you find them willing to. Uh, recover if they don’t admit there’s a problem and, um, uh, are, are on this path. Of, um, continued abuse. [00:16:00] It’s very hard for a recovery to take hold. You find them willing to step up and saying, I turned my life over the care, over to the care of God, and I’m willing to let go and let God help guide me through a path of recovery.

Or do you find them resistant saying, I don’t know what the hell you’re all about, right. I’m not interested. Um, I don’t know if you’re real right. What kind of person comes through your door?

Steven Williams: So really it, it starts with a personal experience By me introducing myself and them getting to know me. How did they find you?

Typically? I, I find them. We are, we’re out on the street day in and day out, week in and week out. We go into different organizations, different houses. There are different house housing projects. Uh, like we have the Oxford Housing that’s nationwide. We have opening doors that does a lot. Um, we’ve worked with the, I don’t know if you guys have heard of them.

They’re doing a lot of things. They’re like the hands in the, in the midst of. Homeless camps and the fentanyl abuse and all this. So we, we kind of let them [00:17:00] know, Hey, this is the next step. Here’s where they are, here’s where they’re going. We’re bridging that gap. So when you have them and you’re, you’ve got them to a certain point, send them to us.

But a lot of it is, you know, we’re meeting

Gene Valentino: them. Well, you, let me interrupt from moment to moment during our conversation. How much of this is, uh, do you think is a, a chemical induced fentanyl exposure?

Steven Williams: With the women that we’re dealing with. I wouldn’t say so much of the Fentanyl exposure on our side. We have had to deal with some of those situations.

But it varied. I mean, it, it could be alcohol, it could be methamphetamines, it could be cocaine. It could, it could be the fentanyl. It could be a lot of different things like.

Gene Valentino: Is, is are they admitting to their abuse of drugs and alcohol impacting the relationship with their, uh, with their partner, with their husband, uh, with their wife?

Are they, are they at a, are they admitting there’s something wrong in their behavior or is it truly abuse from the spouse? [00:18:00]

Steven Williams: So it’s about 60 40, I would say 60 40. What 60% are in, in, I guess accepting the fact that, hey, you know what, we are both doing this or I’m doing this. I need help not to do this anymore.

The other 40% are in complete denial of everything, and it’s the world’s fault. Yeah. Um, and there are situations in, in that percentage that it’s, some of ’em are, aren’t even using drugs. They’ve just been in a very toxic relationship with the man or. If a woman, however, you know, it’s, it falls ’cause we do see that in today’s society.

But it, it’s, it’s volatile. It’s, there’s, I I can’t give you a, a, a, just weight on that all the time. ’cause it does vary.

Gene Valentino: Steve Williams with pouring foundations working in part in parcel with his wife, Rebecca. And together their team is reaching out to the world, starting in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties.

Uh, they’re getting contributions coming into their organization. I. To help pay for the, the [00:19:00] afflicted, the the victims’, um, rent for the month, um, some counseling, some care, some food and shelter. It reminds me of something my wife and I were u uh, were involved in is the Susan B. Anthony Shelters. Yes. Uh, and, and, and some of the outreach that goes on there.

Uh, it’s a very, uh, good program that helps gentrify women back into society. You help them with the job training.

Steven Williams: So we’re actually trying to get into partnership with EscaRosa Center. We, we met this wonderful young lady not too long ago when we did an, uh, outreach event down at the Museum Plaza where a bunch of nonprofits got together and they, they were connecting, Hey, this is what I can do for you.

This is what I do for you. And we’ve been in kind of, um, I guess a planning stage of how we can incorporate them into helping us do that. We do have some other individuals that can help them with, you know, resume building and stuff in our local, our local stuff. But. We do need to get them into job training.

That versus in there in different areas of people that are willing to say, Hey, you know what? I know they had a, they had [00:20:00] a rough time, but

Gene Valentino: let me give them a chance. How cooperative Steve are the, uh, uh, local, uh, political, uh, entities outside of Michelle Salzman or state representative proactively helping you?

How about, um, our county commission in Santa Rosa County and in Escambia County or the cities? So we’ve seen a

Steven Williams: huge drawback. Um, I, I don’t mean to be disgruntled against this, but it is something that hits really close to home. We see a lot of funding going to the city and the city saying they’re gonna do A, B, and C, and they never do it.

Gene Valentino: Yeah, that’s a shame because when I was county commissioner, we had, uh, what was referred to as an out outsource agency program. There were 60, 70 not-for-profit entities, and we’d, we’d, uh, take 300,000 and $500,000 and disperse it on some level of parity to the various not-for-profit entities as they needed it.

Uh, some as little as, um, [00:21:00] $5,000, others as much as 60,000, $80,000 of distribution to their cause. Uh, I, I hope that entity is still in place in the counties and I hope, um, you’re on their register to be considered, uh, for, um, for that allocation that they deem appropriate to you. It’s such a vital cause and.

It’s part of what government should be doing is, um, helping those who cannot help themselves. Right. Tell me about some of the success stories. Give, give ’em a reason why they should be funding you. So

Steven Williams: one of our biggest successes, I would say, is as a young lady that was actually leaving all of it, she, she was kind of like a gang member in a sense, if I could say that way.

She went into jail, she had, um. She has two wonderful, wonderful little girls that she lost the opportunity to have in her life full time. So her family stepped in and helped her with it. But since we’ve been working with, you mean she lost her parenting rights? Yes. Okay. But since we’ve been [00:22:00] working with her, uh, she, she is a vital member of not just foreign foundations now, but a vital member of the community in our church.

And she’s pouring back into people and she’s showing them that, you know what, if I can do it, she’s very young. She’s in her twenties, she’s in her young twenties, so she’s saying, if I can do this. I can change my life. She doesn’t look like where she came from anymore. You couldn’t recognize her if I showed you a picture from, yeah, five years ago, what she is today.

And I can’t take credit for that. I know the Lord changed her, but we were able to bridge that gap and say, Hey, let us show you a different way. Let us show you this. And we’ve been able to help her financially in the past, but now she’s to a point where she’s stable, she’s sustainable, and she’s growing.

She has a full-time job. She’s working on getting a very lucrative job at the moment. But she is, I, I’m just so proud of her. Um, she’ll kill me if I say her name right now, but she will be speaking at our event next week as well. Oh, wonderful. If anybody wants to come out, we’re holding that. Like I said, that golf tournament next week,

Gene Valentino: you know what we should do?

We [00:23:00] should have a follow up at some point, maybe six months to a year from now. That’d be great. Except the next interview we do together bring two or three of the success stories with you. I, I and let’s have more of a. Round table discussion. Yeah. And let these ladies speak firsthand about the plight they’ve been through.

Yes. And, um, the successes that they’ve enjoyed through pouring foundations and you and Rebecca’s ability to help them change their lives. Absolutely. So, go ahead. A few more stories.

Steven Williams: Uh, so, um, we actually have a family that we worked with too over the past, probably four or five months. They went through a really hardship.

They had to move from where they were living because of the, the parent that owned that home. Sold it. Um, they were living there with their father and they sold the home and just said, good luck. So they had to move into a place where they were very uncomfortable with. And then during this move, the, the father lost his job.

They, they were trying to do everything they can do, right. But they ran into a really, they a brick wall. They had three [00:24:00] kids that were homeschooled. The mom was having to take care of them day in and day out, and they couldn’t do anything. They, they were. They weren’t asking for anything either. This is what threw me is somebody told me about the situation.

Um, we were able to make sure all through December that they had all their rent paid, all their utilities paid, their kids were able to have Christmas instead of, you know, this is gonna be a, a sucky year, basically. Kids look forward to that. Um, and they’ve actually been a, a part of the foundation and the recovery process that we do.

But I didn’t know this was going on, so it was like. The foundation inside of itself still needed some things going to be people that were working with us needed a foundation still. So we were able to see that happen. And now he has got an amazing job, um, I’m wonderful to tell you his name, but he’s working with Navy Federal and they’re, they’re just, they’re blowing my mind that the growth in their life and what, what it’s doing for them.

We’ve, um, we’ve worked with a few men in the past, um, that we’ve [00:25:00] helped get off the street. And I know this isn’t part of the main vision, but it’s still. Still worth the cost. We’ve watched, uh, they can’t get IDs, they can’t get birth certificates. ’cause first off, they don’t have the money. They don’t have anything to say, Hey, this is who I am.

So we’ve helped bridge that gap to, okay, how can we find out? Let’s get you an address. Let’s get you a PO box. Let’s get you a letter sent so we can verify this who you are. Go get you an id. Now these men are working, they’re still struggling a little bit here and there, and that’s to be suspected. You know, you can’t, you can’t fix.

A wound that’s six inches deep Overnight. Sometimes. Yeah, sometimes it takes a little, a little while.

Gene Valentino: Which means, which gets to the foundation of your organization and, um, Ephesians 2, 2, 20 20. Yes. Says what?

Steven Williams: So, I I, I, I don’t want to completely ruin the scripture, so I’m gonna paraphrase it. It’s basically saying in that scripture that.

What we’re doing is based off what the, the apostles and the prophets taught, and that is based off of the chief cornerstone, Jesus Christ. And he’s [00:26:00] the foundation that he’s what holds the foundation together. That is what our main goal is to show people the love of Christ in their life and that’s what’s gonna hold this foundation.

’cause I can come and I can pour money into your life, but if you don’t have something sustainable that’s gonna change from the inside out, it’s not gonna

Gene Valentino: do nothing. So you’re not a religious organization, but you, you rely on scripture. To help, uh, uh, a lot of people who are wiser than you and me. Yes.

That preceded us. And I guess that scripture is helping you in the guidance of your, of those in need or the afflicted that are coming

Steven Williams: to you. Yeah. So, uh, uh, we’re not. I hate to say we’re not, yeah, I don’t. It’s a religious thing. We’re not affiliated with any church, but we are faith based. I, I, everything I do is based off of biblical standards, good biblical principles and what really works.

And the reason I’ve done that is ’cause it’s, I’ve watched it work time and time again. If we will apply those principles, we will apply those teachings. They really do work.

Gene Valentino: What’s in the future of pouring [00:27:00] foundations?

Steven Williams: Well, well hopefully what’s in the future? Next month we’re actually opening our first transitional house.

Um, we’re gonna be housing five to eight women in our first house. Um, at the end of the year. We’re really hoping that this thing falls through, that the Lord has been setting up where we’re gonna be able to buy a house. It’s like a two and a half story house that we can basically make a 15 to 2020 occupancy out of it.

And over the next two to three years, we wanna open a facility that’s a hundred, 150. Rooms where we can house that many people and have on site mental health, job training, and all the resources they need to get out. And obviously this isn’t, this is a temporary solution, but usually it takes, you know, about 12 months for these individuals to really get that grounding and be able to go out on their own.

It’s kind of like, let the bird fly out the nest, right? So we have to have that foundation for ’em to build back upon. And there is cost in all this stuff, but we wanna be able to have action plans in, in those cases. At the end, they can leave with something in the bank where they can get them a car, they can [00:28:00] have down payments, they can have their first and last month’s rent and everything to get into somewhere.

They, we don’t wanna just take from them because that’s not gonna do them no good.

Gene Valentino: Well it seems that, um, uh, the direction is very positive. It’s not limited to just two counties in Escambia County. No, no. And in Santa Rosa County. It’s limited. It’s, it’s a national issue. Yes. It’s a worldwide issue, but, uh, you know, eat the elephant one bite at a time.

Right, right, right. The AA program, alcoholics Anonymous program spread worldwide. Uh, but it started in a, in a local region of Missouri and Kansas area. Uh, today, uh, your organization, while it’s limited to maybe just two counties, I see you’ve got contributions coming in from all over. Yeah. That’s wonderful.

Steven Williams: What’s, how do they contribute to your site? So we can, you can either go to pouring foundations.org and there’s a Donate Now button on there, or we even have a PayPal, which you can contact me directly and [00:29:00] get that. Um, do you have a number? I do. It’s 8 5 0 3 8 2 4 3 4 2. And that’s my personal cell phone.

You’re more than welcome to reach out to me at any time to ask any questions or any information you need given on this subject and

Gene Valentino: the, and the website again, pouring foundations.com. Dot org oh.org. Excuse me. www.pouringfoundations.org folks. And, um, uh, you, so you’ve got individual contributors, you’ve got a lot of supporters like me and state representative, uh, Michelle Salzman.

Uh, let it be that she facilitates maybe other state representatives in, in the future being more, uh, effective with, um, the governor in getting some allocation to you in the future to expand this needy. Service that, um, helps bring back, uh, it helps bring workers back into the workforce. Yes, it does. Uh, not migrants, illegal migrants, but I mean needy, needy workers here, patriots, citizens who have [00:30:00] just gone astray and are in need of some help.

To get back in, mainstreamed into the work. Um, gentrified back into the workforce is, is a wonderful thought, and your organization feeds that notion. Uh, uh, if there’s any other, uh, elected officials out there listening, please note that you are, uh, welcome to bring to your, uh, city council or co, uh, county commission the notion that, uh, pouring foundations ought to be.

Considered as one of the outsourced services you support from within your community. Let’s face it, we’re paying for it one way or the other, right? Uh, let’s catch it on the front end so there’s less cost on the back end. That’s it. That’s it. And, uh, uh, that, that is such a needy, uh, an important need for us to, uh, consider in our last minute or so.

Uh, any other comments or concerns you wanna bring up

Steven Williams: at, at the end of the day, Jean? Just if, if anybody has a, a burden for any [00:31:00] of this, I’m, I’m pleading with our community and those listening to really reach out. If you want more information on what we do, please reach out to us. We will show you what we do.

We don’t hide anything. If people wanna see where the finances going, we keep the books. It’s not. It’s not going all back into my pocket. Well, I’m pouring into this. It shows as much as I can.

Gene Valentino: It shows, and by the way, uh, we’re, we’re broadcasting from our airplane hangar here in Pensacola, Florida. And behind me is the icon a five.

It’s my C plane. Let’s get you up for a flight. I got a better idea. When you have a, uh, um, silent auction at one of your fundraising events, we’ll offer a 600 to a thousand dollars gift. Wow. For the bidder that, uh, bids that kind of contribution, I. To pouring foundations, I’ll, I’ll offer an hour or two of flying in the icon a five, and we’ll do a, a wonderful, uh, uh, shoreline View tour of the Gulf of America.

Yes. [00:32:00] Somewhere between Panama City and Biloxi and northward into the country. Let’s get you into the, um. Let’s get the winner of that bid in that, uh, co-pilot seat. That’ll be awesome. And we’ll take him up for a ride in my, in my aircraft.

Steven Williams: That’d awesome.

Gene Valentino: And that’ll be my contribution to pouring foundations.

We appreciate that very much. Thank you for joining us.

Steven Williams: Thanks, sir. Thank you so much for having Steve Williams

Gene Valentino: with Pouring Foundations here in Pensacola, Florida. Thank you for joining us, Steve. And thank you for joining us here on another great episode of Gene Valentino’s GrassRoots TruthCast. Please subscribe at www dot.

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