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00:00:09:01 – 00:00:39:06
Ruth Baum Bigus
It’s time for KC cares, Kansas City’s nonprofit voice. And we’re telling the stories of Kansas City nonprofits and the people behind them. KC cares is the intersection of the nonprofit and profit community.

00:00:39:06 – 00:01:14:00
Ruth Baum Bigus
Is making Kansas City a better place to live, work, and play. This KC cares segment is brought to you by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. kauffman.org. I’m Ruth Vegas. With this show, we are celebrating our 600th episode focused on elevating the more than 10,000 nonprofit organizations in the greater Kansas City region and beyond. Thank you for your ongoing interest in support and raising awareness of the important work that goes on in the nonprofit sector.

00:01:14:02 – 00:01:36:12
Ruth Baum Bigus
A shout out to my partner, Bobby Keyes, for the great work he does behind the scenes to make things happen. Our guests today reflects the passion and commitment of nonprofits to make the world a better place. Ladies that lean, led by our guest, Doctor LaTonya Goodloe, is committed to helping women who have been incarcerated returned to life with the support they need.

00:01:36:14 – 00:01:51:08
Ruth Baum Bigus
Doctor Goodloe speaks from experience, incarcerated for 48 months. She moves forward and we’re grateful to have her as our guest today, sharing her story of resilience and how she makes a difference. Welcome to KC cares.

00:01:51:10 – 00:01:55:21
Latonya Goodloe
Thank you so much. My absolute pleasure. I love it.

00:01:55:23 – 00:02:06:21
Ruth Baum Bigus
Well, I think a great place to start is tell us about your journey. How does this start? Please feel free to share what you’re comfortable in sharing. Sure.

00:02:07:00 – 00:02:34:18
Latonya Goodloe
Thank you so much for having us. First of all, from myself and from Ladies and Lean, it’s an honor and I’m so happy to be here. ladies, that line is my passion. like you had mentioned from past experience. I had a pretty troubled past coming up as a youth. and just got into gangs and street life and a lot of things that led me on a fast pass, fast track to incarceration.

00:02:34:20 – 00:02:59:04
Latonya Goodloe
and so as I, as you mentioned, I landed, incarcerated for 48 months and, mandatory parole for 38 months. So that was a total of seven years. you know, total in the system. I learned a lot on the journey. I went through a lot on the journey. what what’s mainly to be noted is that ladies that lean the name was born while I was incarcerated.

00:02:59:10 – 00:03:18:24
Latonya Goodloe
Okay. I, birth the name. I had it in me, and I would say it. And a few other ladies, we said it, but it’s. It was never what it is today. we kind of thought, oh, yeah, we do the same thing as men do. You know, we’re ladies that lean and and things like that. And that took quite a few years to come to fruition.

00:03:18:24 – 00:03:47:06
Latonya Goodloe
What it really is today, living after negativity is what the lean stands for. So that’s an a summary of myself a little bit. I’ve recently released, been a coauthoring a book and start sharing more about myself and my journey. voices of women and Lesbian justice. And so I’ll be sharing more about my intimate walk through and how I actually got to hear Doctor Goodloe and Double Doctor at this point.

00:03:47:08 – 00:03:59:22
Latonya Goodloe
I have a doctor in leadership today. And so, just, you know, I used to be inmate 76615. And here I am today, Doctor LaTonya Goodloe, very proudly. So thank you for having me.

00:03:59:24 – 00:04:19:06
Ruth Baum Bigus
Well, congratulations to you for making it through that. That time. A difficult time, I can’t imagine. but I think it’s so interesting that this came to you while you were in prison. Can you share a little bit more? I mean, that’s amazing.

00:04:19:08 – 00:04:52:02
Latonya Goodloe
It is. I, I, you know, honestly, during that time, my background is in building maintenance. I’m a tradesman. I’m a painter by trade. I have a for profit business, a commercial construction company. So I honestly, during all of that time, I was taking building maintenance and I was being a heathen. Let me mention that. So I wasn’t like just being an awesome individual while I was incarcerated, but I was going through a transformation, you know, and I don’t know, the name just kept coming to me very loudly.

00:04:52:02 – 00:05:15:02
Latonya Goodloe
And I thought it was so cute. Like I said, I just loved it. And, you know, I thought, well, when I get out, I’m gonna put this on a t shirt. You know, I just my mind was not in a healed space to understand what was being given to me. But the name never, never went away. And immediately when I came home, I started doing, like, giving away hot dogs in the name of ladies that lead, you know, activism.

00:05:15:04 – 00:05:36:10
Latonya Goodloe
I had something at the Capitol in the name of ladies. I mean, just it just started. I went to, I went to Houston and gave away supplies. And during that flood, you know, I was just, like, really floundering around trying to find what ladies and leading is supposed to be doing. But I just as as it grew, I knew it was supposed to be doing something to help people.

00:05:36:12 – 00:05:58:13
Latonya Goodloe
it really took quite a few years for it to unravel. And for me, it was it was the journey. Because what, ladies, that truly is, is everything that myself and, one of my business partners, which is a beautiful story. I was incarcerated with her. And so here we are today, you know, with the nonprofit organization reaching for those ladies like us.

00:05:58:15 – 00:06:22:18
Latonya Goodloe
but it just it just kind of grew, you know, it really just kind of grew. It stuck with us. We done these things and then, you know, kind of came together with two other women who had the same passion. And, and here we are. But what we’ve done, I did want to mention. Ladies and lean, what we’ve done is create a program out of the steps we’ve taken to get here.

00:06:22:20 – 00:06:48:20
Latonya Goodloe
You know, so those foundational steps and really having the voice for true change and, attainable sustainable Reentry plan, is kind of some of the, all the things we did along the way, we kind of took and grasped those things and created something in the program, you know, to push others like us for relatable because it’s really, when people say, how did you get here?

00:06:48:20 – 00:07:18:07
Latonya Goodloe
Well, it’s it’s life, right? You have to do the real things. This is not some oh here, you know, type of things. We actually went through a lot, a lot of healing, a lot of educating, a lot of sharing. And so I just want to make that known that it grew all the way. And then it’s amazing how it stands now that from prison to here, it’s a bundle of information that we’ve learned and how we got here, if that makes sense.

00:07:18:09 – 00:07:37:13
Ruth Baum Bigus
Totally makes sense. I want to give the audience a little bit of a historic knowledge. We talked about your years spent incarceration and the journey out. So how long was it before you decided, okay, we have great ideas, but we need to make this a nonprofit. And then how did you go about doing that?

00:07:37:15 – 00:08:02:19
Latonya Goodloe
Absolutely. It took a long time. I was released from prison June 6th, 2006. And ladies, that became my actual 501 C3 in 2021. And so it took that long. now it could have happened sooner, but we vowed and dedicate we wanted to do all those phases on our own. So file for the nonprofit, learn how to do this because we want to teach the next woman.

00:08:02:21 – 00:08:23:01
Latonya Goodloe
We could have paid somebody, of course, but that leaves us without the information. And so if I’m writing the entire program out, to actually filing, working with the IRS, learning ups and downs, we we did all that on our own. so we’re very proud of that because we really didn’t know what we were doing, what we were doing.

00:08:23:01 – 00:08:45:08
Latonya Goodloe
But to show you the historic from 2006, you know, and we really feel like we’ve been doing great and doing things where we feel like this year really founded us as a nonprofit. And what do I mean? We received our first grant that we wrote on our own, you know? And so now we’re actually starting a program that we have written and drawn out and, and created on our own.

00:08:45:10 – 00:09:06:06
Latonya Goodloe
And so, though we’ve done things and held things, we feel like this year we really have found our groove. We began teaching soon, the class that we created, as I said, we have a grant for it. So it’s been some time of developing and I feel like we’re still going to be because we’re open. I like to remind everybody that we’re still those ladies.

00:09:06:08 – 00:09:27:22
Latonya Goodloe
You know, I think that people see all the doctor or the this and just think we don’t deal with the PTSD, the repercussions, my children, my grandchildren. You know, there’s a lot of things I still deal with regarding regarding incarceration. So, you wake up and you battle today, you know, and we learn more things today. And so what am I saying?

00:09:27:22 – 00:09:33:13
Latonya Goodloe
The program continues to grow as we learn and continue to grow.

00:09:33:15 – 00:09:54:01
Ruth Baum Bigus
Well, congratulations to you for taking the step. It’s not easy, as we’ve talked about on this program, to start a nonprofit. You know, it takes lots of things. passion is great. But, you know, then when you got to put the pen to the paper and, you know, move it forward. So you’ve received a grant for this year.

00:09:54:01 – 00:10:01:11
Ruth Baum Bigus
So tell us what that grant is now going to enable you to do with ladies that Lane.

00:10:01:13 – 00:10:27:01
Latonya Goodloe
Thank you so much. Absolutely. we have created an emotional intelligence arena. That’s what we’re calling. It’s a core. So but it’s the emotional intelligence arena, which is a six week course once a week where we delve into everything emotional intelligence, your beliefs, your values, how you operate, the way you respond really in depth. Digging into this class requires you to cry.

00:10:27:01 – 00:10:51:12
Latonya Goodloe
Laughs. Not in everything else. If you don’t, you’re not doing it right. And so we’ve been a while in the works, getting this class together, really bringing our experiences along with, of course, medical, information and just things that can truly change a woman’s life. So that is what we got our grant for. the grant is for Wyandotte County for this particular grant, but we are on both sides of the water.

00:10:51:14 – 00:11:10:15
Latonya Goodloe
so we we are looking for a space to teach that in KC, Mo as well. But the grant, we feel like housing is wonderful. We feel like the job is wonderful. All of these things that you need when you come home and when you’re doing in the system, the people that these first women that are in our class, they’re currently on parole and probation.

00:11:10:17 – 00:11:31:20
Latonya Goodloe
So you know, what we’ve learned and what we know to be true here at Ladies at Lean is that without emotional intelligence, you are failing from the beginning. Right? Picking a job, just say picking the job that is right for you. Oh I want to work at Amazon today. Right. Can you get to Amazon? Where do your kids go to school?

00:11:31:20 – 00:11:54:15
Latonya Goodloe
Are you going to ruin your chances of ever working at Amazon a long term, you know, so for people coming home, whereas you someone just looking might say get them a job, get them a car, emotional intelligence comes into play and allows you to make sustainable, attainable choices. Right. what? Maybe I need to work at the dollar store first that I can walk to around the corner.

00:11:54:15 – 00:12:16:12
Latonya Goodloe
Why? You know, because I don’t want to ruin my reputation. And, you know, these are just little things that. And that’s just. I’m just making an example. But how emotional intelligence comes in to making decisions. a lot of times people like myself make decisions off of trauma based and off of survival based, but it doesn’t sustain you and it ends real soon.

00:12:16:12 – 00:12:39:22
Latonya Goodloe
And then here we are back in step one, or here they are back at the nonprofit door needing those resources again. So again, I think, ladies that Lean In is for we want to work with other nonprofits as well, because what we want to do is help nonprofits make the best of your resources. Okay? And because helping someone is wonderful, it’s wonderful, but it is not attainable, sustainable.

00:12:39:22 – 00:13:12:05
Latonya Goodloe
You’re going to continue to pour out your resources and waste people’s donations, waste what people are trying to do, and then the next person can’t get help because we have this one person in a rat race cycle, oh, I need this. I need that because I don’t have a attainable, sustainable plan. And so we feel like emotional intelligence applies to everybody, for one, but particularly women coming home so that they can make the right decisions or women in the system that you can make the right decisions that don’t lead back to incarceration, but also lead to a career.

00:13:12:07 – 00:13:31:20
Latonya Goodloe
a car that you can afford, you know, housing that you can actually get your kids back and forth to school, all the things that, you know, house, job, car. Oh, yay. Okay. You know, so we find a lot of people back at stage one because we didn’t think it through the emotional part of it, the intelligent part of it.

00:13:31:20 – 00:13:44:05
Latonya Goodloe
So, there’s a whole lot we’re going to delve into with emotional intelligence. But for us, an actual lived experience and being able to emotionally, intelligently make decisions is how we got here.

00:13:44:07 – 00:14:00:04
Ruth Baum Bigus
So that sounds very exciting. We’re talking with Doctor LaTonya Goodloe. Ladies that lean. Let’s let’s chat about your partners. Tell us a little bit about the other women that you’re doing this with.

00:14:00:06 – 00:14:23:22
Latonya Goodloe
Yes. Thank you so much. firstly, Doctor Smith and Doctor Vance are my partners. we all have a different way, you know, thing that we bring to ladies that lean, myself and Doctor Smith were incarcerated together. she did seven years and three years parole as well. And so her and I have known each other for many years as well.

00:14:23:22 – 00:14:44:10
Latonya Goodloe
And so it’s beautiful to be here together. doctor Vance, she brings a different aspect to it as where she has dealt with family members being incarcerated, her husband being incarcerated, and so understanding that of being a loved one at home happen to take the kids to prison and having to deal with coming home and the issues that people face.

00:14:44:12 – 00:15:01:07
Latonya Goodloe
So together we are a bundle of lived experience. And we bring, I read and I speak for ladies that lean, but, they will echo the things that I’m saying. we just do a few different things. as far as hands on.

00:15:01:09 – 00:15:11:05
Ruth Baum Bigus
Now the program is, is just ramping up. How do women find you that have had this experience? How do you know? How do you put it out there?

00:15:11:07 – 00:15:39:18
Latonya Goodloe
Sure. we are on, Facebook. we are on TikTok. We have a website, and I also am boots on the ground, making connections with other nonprofits and things like that. We’ve made connections with parole and probation officers, to get the word out to the right woman. And honestly, a part of that, we want to work with parole and probation officers as well as the client, so that we can bring full understanding to what’s happening.

00:15:39:24 – 00:16:03:13
Latonya Goodloe
So those are ways right now, we’re really trying to reach for women who are in the system. And so we feel like if we loudspeaker ladies that lean in the system, which is how we are finding women for our emotional intelligence course, too, we’ve been lucky that community corrections have sent us, women probation officers have sent us women, and we still have room for seven more women to come into.

00:16:03:15 – 00:16:16:22
Latonya Goodloe
But, yeah, it’s been a lot of word of mouth, but, but, but voicing that to those organizations who have that particular client, can see ladies I lean is being a resource.

00:16:16:24 – 00:16:25:08
Ruth Baum Bigus
How how many will be in the course. And once you get through this first one, what’s the game plan.

00:16:25:10 – 00:16:55:13
Latonya Goodloe
So or thank you. We are looking to take 10 to 12 women in the first course. because we want to have equal divide, a lot of the things will be going on will be we require complete, engagement. You know, we you can’t because we have total community corrections, and everyone else will hand back an evaluation not to smother the ladies or say anything bad, but to say, how do you really did you really grasp emotional intelligence?

00:16:55:19 – 00:17:31:05
Latonya Goodloe
And were you here participating? And so, we’re hoping, you know, that the, the ladies we spoke to are so excited. We’re going to we’re going to learn so much from them as well. But what we plan to do is just keep this up. We want to teach this in the youth detention center. We next want to go to Topeka Correctional, where we were incarcerated and began to work with women who are six months to a year, from release, because this is something we feel like if we can get this down in their short enough before they come home, we can actually right away make good decisions and not have to, like, learn this

00:17:31:05 – 00:17:52:23
Latonya Goodloe
and then make good decision. So a lot of what we want to do is grab women before they come home or before they exit the system so that they’re empowered, to make good decisions and to have emotional intelligence and we have a lot of other different programs. But right now, this is what we feel like we really want to start and hone in as we continue.

00:17:53:00 – 00:17:56:00
Latonya Goodloe
I hope I answered what you did.

00:17:56:02 – 00:18:03:01
Ruth Baum Bigus
Okay. So you have the course that you just mentioned, that there are other things you do in the community. Can you talk a little bit about that?

00:18:03:03 – 00:18:29:10
Latonya Goodloe
Yes, absolutely. well, we are working on our budding business fair. part of what we do is because we’ve had personal experience, my children had to visit me, you know, for four years straight, incarcerated, you know, and, we have held together me and my children, but I had to really look it in the face. you know, the way that I affected their life and different things.

00:18:29:10 – 00:18:47:00
Latonya Goodloe
And then I’ve also been able to see where I went wrong and what I should have done and how I could have affected their life differently. So, we want to make an impact on the youth that are affected by the streets and that, you know, society is saying they’re on their way to prison, they’re on their way to prison.

00:18:47:02 – 00:19:07:24
Latonya Goodloe
and grab those. Because what’s happening is that if we can create leaders in these young people early and, and, and allow them to understand you can be a business owner, you can be this you don’t have to sell drugs. You don’t have to do these things. So nobody came and gave me those options. I thought owning a business was the,

00:19:08:01 – 00:19:28:09
Latonya Goodloe
When I make enough money, I’m going to. You know, that was my mindset when I was out there in the streets. And so, it’s just we were hoping to grab the youth, from the urban core and those that are kind of headed in the wrong direction and give them, something to hope for and dream for.

00:19:28:09 – 00:19:49:21
Latonya Goodloe
So the budding business fair. Stay tuned. we’re going to be taking youth that are interested in becoming entrepreneurs, hosting budding business fairs for them, and we hope the community will come out and support them. we have been hosting Stop the Violence throughout the cities. We held one in Wyandotte, we held one in KC, Mo. Because again, that’s part of what we’re dealing with, right?

00:19:49:21 – 00:20:09:06
Latonya Goodloe
Violence. in our communities, we are going to back off a little bit from that and team up with some other organizations that are already robust in that in to because it’s not about us, it’s about we really want to see change. And so, instead of ladies that we hosting those, we are looking for an organization to kind of team up with that already has a lead in that.

00:20:09:06 – 00:20:31:22
Latonya Goodloe
And we will fall in line with our resources. along with that, we’ll be having next year, we have our first, gala, if you want to call it. And so it’ll be sneakers and skirts, that we kind of I love that. Yeah. Because everything we want, we do we want to be relatable to our clients. Right.

00:20:31:24 – 00:20:48:17
Latonya Goodloe
we want to bring we want them to still be able to be them. I have been lucky to be able to authentically show up as myself, you know, because, hey, hey, there I am. I’m, you know, still developing. And yes, I got this education. Everything. But I show up as my authentic self and that’s how I truly have been able to heal.

00:20:48:19 – 00:21:05:15
Latonya Goodloe
And so skirts and sneakers is kind of that, you know, rough around the edges type of lady. You know what I’m saying? Maybe you know, like me recuperating from living a street life. And so we thought that was cute. But we’ll be having that yearly, along with other, courses we are forming. will be coming out.

00:21:05:15 – 00:21:28:04
Latonya Goodloe
What, you know, our next line up after Emotional intelligence. So we’ll be doing a lot of teaching as well as we are. And I’m sorry for that thing. I hope it dies real quick. My speaker in the back. I’m sorry I tried to get everything you said done, but, we are also teamed up with Pearls of Christ, which is where we went to school for our degrees.

00:21:28:06 – 00:21:50:17
Latonya Goodloe
I’ve been in school for a long time now, but Doctor Vance, which is one of the partners as well, she has a nonprofit, Pearls of Christ, which is in honor of her grandmother, who, was a domestic violence survivor. And so Pearls of Christ is aimed at supporting women that have been through domestic violence, but also anyone who wants an education.

00:21:50:19 – 00:22:08:13
Latonya Goodloe
and so, it’s been amazing. I’ve been able to get an education that nontraditional way. and, and so we offer that as well. When women are, we don’t just push it right away because it wasn’t something that I was. Oh, yeah, let me get it in school and do it now, you know, again, attainable. Sustainable.

00:22:08:15 – 00:22:38:12
Latonya Goodloe
Right. So, but that’s something that we offer and not because we feel like, oh, you got to be so smart, at least. But then how it helped my self-esteem. Right? How it helped me relabel, how it gave me a respect that people may not have just given me. But, you know, and so for women like myself, we feel like it is a little bit important to and remaking yourself to, you know, have that education, have that doctor in front of your name, you know, the prison.

00:22:38:17 – 00:22:54:08
Latonya Goodloe
Hey, I’m Doctor Goodloe. What can you say? You know, you right. Part of living actually have to negativity is, is really changing that face of women incarcerated. Right. And so that’s the end game. Yeah.

00:22:54:10 – 00:22:57:12
Ruth Baum Bigus
So but I think changing that narrative.

00:22:57:14 – 00:22:59:15
Latonya Goodloe
Yes, ma’am. That’s what I wanted to say.

00:22:59:21 – 00:23:24:22
Ruth Baum Bigus
and and discovering your, your true self. So that’s that’s amazing. All right. You’re doing all these things. You said you have a business, you have a nonprofit, you got kids, you got grandkids. Lucky you, how do you how do you balance that? You’re a nonprofit leader, but you have all this. We’re looking for insight to share with others who are trying to do the same thing.

00:23:24:24 – 00:23:27:06
Ruth Baum Bigus
Sure.

00:23:27:08 – 00:23:51:22
Latonya Goodloe
Okay. I got to be honest and say, I think I have overachiever syndrome a little bit now, coming from my background, you know, I’ve just been trying to, like prove to myself a little bit, if you would, that, you know. So I don’t know if I suggest everything that I do because one, because I deal with a lot of still mentally telling myself, you can do this.

00:23:51:22 – 00:24:07:04
Latonya Goodloe
You got this. You know, those, those low days, those feeling like, does anybody understand this? I got a nonprofit, a for profit people look at me like I’m crazy. People have also tried to tell me, nope, nope. Just focus on your for your profit. You know, ladies, that lean is is like I said, it was born in prison.

00:24:07:04 – 00:24:42:14
Latonya Goodloe
It’s something that just can’t. It’s not like, oh, I want to do ladies that late. And yeah, it really is something that my purpose. Right. But I have to make money and and my, and my background is in commercial construction. So how I have, been able to bring all those things together is for me and ladies Ellen, as well as the office work, which I set aside Thursdays only for ladies and lean and Tuesdays are now becoming ladies that lean half a day, which in business I’m able to write those days off that I donate because I do not get paid for ladies and lean right now.

00:24:42:14 – 00:25:10:16
Latonya Goodloe
So it works out for LSG. But also, what have you brought to the table? I should have mentioned earlier is, I teach women affected by incarceration, the trade of commercial painting. And so I have graduated three women to date on a project of painting. So they were actually able to come in work, learn from the bottom to the top, and the goal is to get them ready to be able to get into a career that will change their life.

00:25:10:18 – 00:25:40:06
Latonya Goodloe
I was able to remake myself in commercial construction and there was little judgment zone there. Everybody’s rough around the collar there, and as I said, I went to school for building maintenance while I was incarcerated. So, along the journey, I’ve understood the power of construction, right? The power of wow, I have truly been able to just add from a painter to building maintenance to project managing, to superintending, to owning a business.

00:25:40:06 – 00:26:02:23
Latonya Goodloe
Right. And through the whole thing, it was like where I was supposed to be. And so I’m very passionate. My husband is a master carpenter. We are just married a year and my life is just. All roads led to construction. Okay, so I’ve been able. But, but, but I feel like what’s loud and blaring is also appointing women to this space.

00:26:02:23 – 00:26:20:18
Latonya Goodloe
Not just for tradesmen, but there’s so many positions and construction. We don’t have as much, excitement about it in the urban core that it needs to be when people are looking for a job or remake yourself. I don’t think people understand how much trade they make. They just look at it like, oh, that’s a blue collar job.

00:26:20:18 – 00:26:41:00
Latonya Goodloe
But there’s so much money to be made in commercial construction that I really was like, I own a business now, you know? But from all even the jobs and all the jobs I’ve ever had just pay very well in construction. And so I bring it together by teaching the trade. I’m still developing that as well. for future, of course.

00:26:41:00 – 00:27:02:20
Latonya Goodloe
I want to have an all woman’s paint crew, but I also want to offer these women that have completed the course to construction company Jade, Turner, Burns and McDonald’s, all the construction companies that I admire. But we all resound the same thing we need. We need tradesmen. We need people who care about construction and want to build America.

00:27:02:22 – 00:27:31:01
Latonya Goodloe
And so myself and my husband, that’s how we kind of intersect. It is my big portion there, along with teaching and developing emotional, but is to raise awareness about construction and so far as the job training and things like that, I kind of going to gear you towards, if this is what you want. My, Felicia Doctor Smith, she owns a lawn Manicuring business, so as well, if you’re interested, that’s a good pathway to remaking your life.

00:27:31:02 – 00:27:48:16
Latonya Goodloe
A little judgment zone, you know? And so we train in that, teach that things. So I know how to cut grass. Yeah. What? I’ll cut your fingers off and doing a really good job at, you know. So all that on a commercial level that we. Right. And so that’s how we’ve both been kind of able to bring it together.

00:27:48:16 – 00:28:12:08
Latonya Goodloe
Right now I’m working on certifications. woman on certificate for city, state and federal level. That’s going to drastically change the game for my for profit business. But of course, lady, League, which is my business league, commercial construction, we are honored and part of our dream. And what we know is we’re going to support ladies and lean in the vision.

00:28:12:10 – 00:28:36:10
Latonya Goodloe
So, we don’t. When we wrote this vision, we didn’t all the way see just people giving us money. We didn’t see that. We seen ourself being able to actually fund this by way of the businesses and things that we have. So, I’m in $1 billion industry construction. And, I just know that I’ll be able to affect ladies that lean positively that way.

00:28:36:12 – 00:28:46:07
Ruth Baum Bigus
How can the community engage with you? do you need volunteers, you know, and where do we send them to find out all the information?

00:28:46:09 – 00:29:10:23
Latonya Goodloe
Yes. Thank you so much. We do again. We we need all experts. You know, again, it’s not about us. We’re still learning. We want to team up with anyone who has ideas in this space, or even come and teach these things to your staff, your clients, even for profit businesses need this. be honest. Like a lot of employees need emotional intelligence.

00:29:11:00 – 00:29:11:13
Ruth Baum Bigus
To make good.

00:29:11:13 – 00:29:36:06
Latonya Goodloe
Decisions. But, you can reach us on Facebook. You can, yeah. Ladies, I lean on Facebook. Ladies, that lean, website. I’m always around LaTonya at ladies that lean talk. Please reach out. my phone numbers pretty much out there because I have a business, and, all this stuff I don’t to have, like, I need another phone.

00:29:36:08 – 00:29:38:05
Ruth Baum Bigus
Literally. Way.

00:29:38:07 – 00:29:55:02
Latonya Goodloe
yeah. I’m out here. easy to reach doctor LaTonya Goodloe on Facebook as well. Thrive with Doctor Goodloe. So I’m a brand of my own. you can find us, if you want to see the more lighthearted side of us, go find us on TikTok. We’re having some good traction over there and just be relatable to people.

00:29:55:02 – 00:30:13:01
Latonya Goodloe
The dances and all those things which we really love, right? It can be lighthearted, you know, it’s not, you know. So, but yeah, you can find us on all social media platforms and hopefully you just find us when you Google Ladies Valley, our SEO is doing that. Yeah.

00:30:13:03 – 00:30:32:02
Ruth Baum Bigus
Well, you’re doing amazing work, and we congratulate you on that. you know, just everybody check out ladies that lean.org, right. Yes. And we thank you for joining us.

00:30:32:04 – 00:30:38:23
Latonya Goodloe
Thank you. And I wanted to say we also own the domain ladies and lean.com. So either one will get you to us.

00:30:39:00 – 00:31:06:00
Ruth Baum Bigus
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