4.8 • 9.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2022
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Claire Babineaux-Fontenot (CEO, Feeding America) and Justin talk about her family's extraordinary story, how she grew up with more than 100 siblings and how she found her way from Walmart to Feeding America.
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0:00.0 | Hey, prime members. You can listen to Life is Short. Add free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. |
0:13.3 | We have a lot of friends of the show, but our favorite friend, of course, our best friend of the show is our grandmother. |
0:19.7 | Grandma Jodie who sadly passed away, but she's still in our hearts and we think about her a lot. |
0:24.5 | We were thinking about her today. We were thinking about all of the good things she did for people. |
0:29.3 | How she would volunteer everywhere. She would certainly into her 90s. She would take, she worked at, what was that theater? |
0:36.0 | She would work at the local theater and as an usher, she would volunteer as an usher. |
0:40.3 | And then she would volunteer at the church, counting the collection money. |
0:43.9 | She would drive people to the airport. |
0:46.1 | Which is probably in retrospect a very bad idea. |
0:50.3 | Maybe not the most generous. She was 100 years old driving people to the airport in Florida. |
0:54.5 | And much younger people, people who were like, she would call them, you know, kids. |
0:58.5 | They're like 88. |
1:00.5 | Yes. |
1:02.5 | She was just a really good person when we were thinking about it. |
1:05.5 | And you know, we still get messages from people who listen to the show, who remember her. |
1:10.5 | And so it makes us feel really good to keep her memory alive. |
1:14.5 | And so that's what we're doing. |
1:16.5 | We just miss her and what a good person she was and always was really inspired by her generosity. |
1:21.5 | And I think it actually kept her alive longer too. It was doing stuff, you know. |
1:25.5 | Doing things for other people. |
1:26.5 | But I'd like to think so. |
1:28.5 | Yeah. |
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