Episode 75 || Going to Haiti with Dot Products

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts:books, Arts

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Earlier this month, Annie traveled to Haiti with Dot Products, a school supply company based out of Jackson, Mississippi. This episode, Chris and Annie chat with Hallie Darphin, founder of Dot, about Dot's mission, making a global impact, and the magic of reading recommendations. Hallie mentions these books: + The Color Purple + 1984 + Brave New World + Quiet (and this TED Talk by Susan Cain) And these podcasts: + Being Boss + Serial + This American Life + The Moth Find Dot online: Website | Instagram | Facebook Plus, here's a video from Annie's time in Haiti with Dot.

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0:00.0	wait a minute
0:01.2	she's on central time
0:05.1	let me just make
0:06.6	oh
0:07.7	wait wait
0:10.1	wait is she calling
0:12.2	no okay
0:13.7	welcome to episode 75 of from the Front Porch, a collection of conversations on books, small business, and life in the South.
0:26.6	My name is Chris Jensen.
0:28.0	I'm a graduate student and a bookseller at the bookshelf.
0:30.9	And I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.
0:37.5	This episode, we chatted with Hallie Darfin.
0:41.3	Who is the owner, creator, founder.
0:46.5	Founder.
0:48.6	I'm trying to think of a cool word that I can't come up with, but of Dot Products.
0:53.5	And I recently took a trip to Haiti
0:56.8	with dot products and learned a lot about what the organization does, both as a business, I guess,
1:06.2	but then also four kids all around the globe. So Hallie was my trip leader, and she is a 24-year-old entrepreneur.
1:15.9	Which is crazy and scary to me, because I am 26.
1:22.5	Their ages both come up in the conversation.
1:24.7	Mine did not, so here you are, listeners, in case you're wondering.
1:29.2	So, yeah, we chatted with Hallie. And I do want to apologize a little bit for our audio quality.
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