Elevating Indiana's Girls with Lindsay Gramlich of Girls Inc.

you get put in girls ink because you're awesome and and that could be anybody even if there's just one person that's believing in them that can make all the difference if I can make that impact on even just one girl I've done my job what's like one big thing that you hope that Girls Inc accomplishes from southb to Evansville and everywhere in between this is get in the show focused on the hooer state and the incredible stories happening here today I'm Nate spangle founder of G Indiana and I will be your host for today's conversation today I'm joined by Lindsey gramlick the president and CEO of Girls Inc of Greater Indianapolis Lindsay has over a decade of experience in the nonprofit sector she has transformed Girls Inc of Indie into a vital resource for young girls in Central Indiana Lindsay's dedication to social justice and gender equality has expanded programming and support helping girls become strong smart and Bold Girls Inc is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering girls through a range of educational programs mentorship and advocacy by fostering skills in leadership stem and personal development Girls Inc aims to inspire girls to be strong smart and bold in all areas of their life today we're going to be talking about the impact of Girls Inc in Indiana and the partners that they work with we're going to be talking about women in stem programming and what's next in 2025 for Girls Inc Lindsay welcome to get in thank you so much oh I am pumped uh this was actually a fun introduction so I was at the carel caramel Farmers Market you know just like enjoying a Saturday morning and Lind your husband my husb he came up and said first thing it was like hey I love your videos and I was like oh thank you so much like I really appreciate it he goes and you need to interview my wife and I was like oh okay and then he proceeded to give the greatest intro hype deck it was awesome and like for two minutes he talked about how amazing Lindsay is and all the great stuff you've been doing and all the great stuff Girls Inc is doing and then literally that same week my friends at new Sho day had done like a collab with you all and and helped uh provide some shoes uh for for some of the the girls in your programming and it kind of like everything was pretty serous fast forward like a month or two Lindsay and I both were depal I we're on a meeting together and I'm like hey you're supposed to come on my podcast and like let's make this happen and so here we are lots of good Synergy there yeah absolutely so first thing we're going to start is for those that might not know what girl Inc is can you give us some background on the national program and then kind of like funnel that down into like what you're doing within Indiana with the six Partners there and then spefically greater Indianapolis sure yeah so Girls Inc has been around for 160 years if you can believe it it started as Girls Club up in on the East Coast um and so but greater Indianapolis has been around for 55 years so um we have been established we've been here for a while um the whole mission is to inspire girls to be strong smart and bold and a lot of times people ask what that means it's really healthy educated and independent and so our curriculum covers those those three buckets um of of life skills and we serve girls from Age 5 to 24 which is a very very wide uh range of girls but we make sure that a curriculum is um relevant so if we go into Elementary School we're really just talking about um what a healthy relationship is um what some initial confidence um skills they can gain and then also um trying to set the stage for how to combat bullying and how to be a leader and then we get into like the meat and potatoes of our programming as it relates to middle school high school and then College to Career oh my gosh I love that I did read when I was doing the research like in the in the wake of the Civil War like 1864 or something like Girls Girls Club got started uh which is just wild that like organizations can be around for I mean I don't even want to do public math like 160 years or something like that that's wild um and so in Indiana there is I think there's six organizations you talked yes so where are all the spots uh within Indiana so we are the northernmost affiliate and so we are greater Indianapolis and then we have I I'm gonna hopefully get these right um we have Wayne County we have Jefferson County um Jackson County Shelbyville and Monroe counties I love that yes yeah so that's like uh I went on this whole journey trying to memorize all this the counties in Indiana and now I know exactly where you're talking about I'm like oh yeah I got that one I got that one I got that one um so that's awesome are you like size-wise I would say like I'm assuming greater Indianapolis is like one of the bigger organizations obviously within the state yeah Shelbyville is pretty big too Monroe and Shelbyville are merged together and so they have a a wide impact my goal um for the next five years is to grow our number and so the pandemic we kind of went backwards and and girls served and we have been slowly trying to build back up to that but we also don't want it to be just numbers based we don't want to just check done we have so many girls served this year good for us if we're not actually making an impact if we're not actually moving the needle it's not we're not doing our jobs well let's talk about that what does like getting a girl like into your programming look like like where's the entry point and how are you like what what what are you looking at to determine whether it's success or not sure so we are school-based um for our elementary and middle school programs and so it really depends on the school partnership um and that's another thing that we're taking a look at so um this year um this this fall with rebuilding stronger we came in as the preferred girl partner at all seven middle schools and so we are working with sixth graders at all the new seven middle schools and we'll be tracking them for three years on what impact we can make through that and so is that like going in during like lunch or after school working on some program what does that look like it's during their advisory period so um and that is intentional because we know that after school programs there's so much competing parents can't um get there after school um there's Sports I was in I was at elementary school with one of the girls and she was like I love Girls Inc but I can't do basketball and Girls Inc and I was like well we need to fix that like you need to be able to do both yeah um and so that's why we're during the the school day and it also um we try to get 35 to 50 hours with these girls every year and we can only do that by making sure we are there um one to two times a week at the same time so that we are we are really building that wait one to two times per week for an entire school year yes holy smokes okay so that's like that's some serious uh time commitment it um as well as like a serious uh like e effort amount put in by these girls and and so like how are you tracking progress and like what are some of the outcomes you've seen sure so we do um pre and postprogram surveys um but this year we're actually working with um the lab of Economic Opportunity at Notre Dame to do a longitudinal study that we built with IPS on the um specific impacts of girl Inc programming so we're looking at things like absenteeism rates suspension rates ey learn scores behavioral problems I guess is for the lack of better words um and then you know just leadership confidence building we're we're tracking that so um we're we're doing a study of Girls Inc girls and just normal middle school girls to see where the differences and what impact we are making over the next three years I love that and it's have you I mean you've been there for almost two years now uh I'm sure there's like a plethora of cool stories but I'd love to like like put this into um like like conceptualize it for us and like let's see like hey we started working with this girl when she was in sixth grade and now as an eighth grader going into freshman year like these are the noticeable differences and like kind of like the program and the pathway that that she went on one of the examples I have is our Eureka program which is the girl and stem program that we focus on so it is a fiveyear commitment you have to start in eth grade and then you end your senior year of high school you cannot start and stop you have to all in for five years the commitments that you make as an eighth grader like senior year getting ready for Prime I got I got to do my stem credit yes I it's it's incredible because in eth grade I don't think I would have made that commitment so I look at these girls that have said I want to I want to be this and so I'm going to put the effort in for 5 years we graduated our first class this past May so 17 girls went through five years experienc the pandemic experience a leadership change like they had to go all the way virtual to the stem Hands-On program was augmented to Virtual they stuck with it and 17 of them graduated there's several that um I believe the percentage is 90% of them are um at college and I believe 80% of them are still focused in on St careers that's awesome yes and so um and then you know one of our girls um is at rolls Holman which is a huge huge deal if you can see my face right now I'm like holy that's like a I mean I don't know what the breakdown between uh men and women at Ros home but I know it's a lot to a little yes I mean it's like a really really difficult engineering school uh that like you know probably like 60 70 80% male think um which is like it's like funny because people sometimes think that there's like two all boy schools in like no no it's just rosean and the engineers but this is awesome like that's cool to like see uh like I mean one of the girls have gone through your program from is this like within IPS schools some of the our high school programs um pull from um the other suburbs so Hamilton Hendricks and Boon which is part of our Charter which nobody really understands it yet but we'll get to that in the 2025 when we're looking forward yeah um so I'm not entirely sure what school um she came from but um she's an extraordinary young lady and I actually ran into her did the IR radio show or not radio show um spelling B IRT spelling B oh yes yes um that was terrifying by the way are you a good are you good at spelling no oh my gosh that's like nightmare fuel for me like I would not want to get like I am a spell check chat GPT like teach me all the things about it so like kudos to you for doing that yeah I mean I can I can spell but in front of people I like freeze and so but it it was really fun but I ran into her and and her family at at the spelling bee and it was just awesome to see her her face lit up and um that to me if I can make that impact on even just one girl I've done my job so it's just it's so incredible oh absolutely and I'm sure there's like a ton of stories I'm sure we'll get into them as we kind of dive into it but as you're kind of thinking I I would like to dive deeper into like what a fiveyear stem program within Girls Inc looks like and like what's like the work that um that they're having to do that's like going to set them apart from their their peers sure so they have to spend 200 hours with us um in this program and so um they come in at 8th grade and they're we we break them up into cohorts and so the maximum that we can have in a cohort is 30 so that also that makes it very um unique and also there's a wait list to get in and things like that so every um every month they meet um to have workshops and we have curriculum that goes alongside those workshops but what's really cool about it is we bring in Partners we bring in folks like Lily so um they will get to tour have a full tour of Eli Lily's campus with Lily employees for a day which I love to go on those because I like put myself back in eighth grade because I want to learn I just want to know that stuff too I think it's so cool that they get access points to to these folks they the Heritage group um does a lot of um concrete is it asphal like they have like they have an interesting side of that business yes like engineering and so um I sat in a session where they were building um Bridges out of spaghetti straws um and it was those are always the best they were so competitive and so into it I was like this is exactly what this is supposed to be about um so those are um we do Hands-On workshops do you guys do anything with the what is it the state robotics competition or like whatever you know what I'm talking about where they take over Lucas Oil for a day we don't but we did have a robotic session last year and it was really cool and so cumins does some stuff with um some type of accelerator I'll have to like send you the information we'll put it in the in the show notes at the bottom yeah yeah so um but there we have so many amazing corporate partners that come in and female leadership so another piece of this is representation so if our girls can see themselves in these Executive Vice President CEO positions it unlocks something in their brains which is just incredible to see I can see myself in that position now so how do I get from A to B and what do I need do to do for that and so there's this mentorship piece of our programming so there's Hands-On programming curriculum but then there's this mentorship piece it sits on top of it which makes it very unique and so mentorship as in like you know you bring in an executive that's in stem uh from one of these big orgs to talk for a day or mentorship as in like hey you're paired up with a specific high school girl and you're going to be their Mentor for the next four years more the first so um we yeah we pair up with um folks from you know corporate Partners but then also our staff are trained facilitators trained mentors and so that's what's so important too about our programming is that we're not it's not volunteers it's not guest lecturers coming in we have fully trained full-time staff that are doing the facilitation of these programs how big how big's your staff we have 12 right now um and how many of them are facilitators let's see I think that there are eight of them that fall within that yes go and so how many how many girl like one facilitator impacts how many girls life lives on average oh my gosh that's a hard question okay I'm not sure um because if you think about it we serve um well our our goal this year to end the year is is 1500 girls serve this year and so you have to think through um they're at different sites each week and then also doing um the uh high school programs if they're a part of that so I would say all of them likely serve all 1500 girls in some type of capacity and so when you're thinking about this the initial programming of Girls Inc right it's to develop strong smart and bold uh young women girls like where did that come from like where does the data of like these are the three things I mean there's a I mean a ton of different op things that we've talked about today but like Hey we're going to focus on making them smart strong bold I mixed those up strong smart and bold um like where did that come from because I think there's a pretty interesting link to like some surveys and some data that you guys have used to back this up yeah so that's a a national uh platform so we are all um separate 501 c3s so there's 76 Affiliates in the United States in Canada and we all um run completely we're no one's the same which is really cool because we can be whatever we want to do as long as we follow certain guidelines that Girls Inc National um has us do so the strong smarts bold is something that came down from National through I think a whole bunch of Market data market research you might know more than I do on this on this piece um but I I I know it focuses back on we have a Bill of Rights and it's all about um ensuring that girls have the tools to be themselves to advocate for themselves and to be um financially stable um and economically independent from learning those skills at age five and then as you go into College and Career being able to be um this leader thriving in life okay when you think of service level like the work you're doing like makes a ton of sense right but I I don't if everyone understands like the root problem behind this right and like I think like depending on where you grow up and what your experience is whether from like you know the middle of downtown Indianapolis to rural Shelby County it's like that that experience looks different and the problem looks a little bit different but I'd love to talk about like some of the problems that you see as as a root cause and what you're working to like fix yeah I mean if you think about it you know Society has always had a definition of what being a girl is um and what you're what's expected of you and then there is this let me back up too we are also um a very inclusive um organization and so when I say girl if you are also exploring your gender identity you are welcome at Girls Inc so if you are exploring your gend gender identity and um want to be part of girls programming we are inclusive of that so when I say girls there's always an aster there I want to make sure that I'm pointing that out that um we are inclusive but it goes back to girls issues and what girls have faced over the years if you think about it and this is going to make some people uncomfortable but like we're still talking about period supplies in bathrooms at schools we are still having a fight about that in in the state house or it's becoming something on Twitter that people are talking about um that should not be the case right so something as simple as a um a period is still being debated about in society that's kind of like I don't I don't know anything about like it doesn't seem like it's like very debatable it it shouldn't be so but and I I'm sure people are uncomfortable when talking about this but that's just one example of the things that people are still girls are still fighting for I mean this has been a so actually we just released an episode with Alison Barber oh yeah of the fever and she's kind of like moving on to this new program uh this new facility up in like Northwest Indiana like all dedicated to like girl athletes women athletes and like some of the stuff that she brought up was also mind-blowing to me about like Title 9 and like these different like it seems like okay I'm I'm like 27 years old and like to me it's like this some of the stuff seems like common sense it's like but like it is so like a lot of it is like new which is like sad to say like it's sad to say that a lot this is like new and there's still debates and things like that but it does seem like there is momentum going and obviously organizations like yours are doing a great job but so like you talk about periods but what other kind of like issues and things that are like hey people in Indiana whether you live in Indianapolis or you live like in rural Fort Wayne um I guess for R is not that rural it's like biggest city like rural Bourbon Indiana which is my hometown like like these are the some more of the issues that you guys are working to like change yeah so mental health is a huge huge issue um you can you put social media out there put Middle School social media and I can't I I tell my girls all the time I I cannot even imagine what it's like to have middle school is hard enough you're you're learning yourself you're growing into your confidence then you throw on a platform that you are online all the time with filters and misinformation and bullying and it is it's horrific yeah it's like I don't know if if you don't have kids and like you kind of like so I coach a high school wrestling team okay and so actually uh girls wrestling just became an ihsa sanction Sport and we've had a team for two years now and like our girls are kind of like they're super pump trying to compete for a State title yeah so see that's another thing why did girls wrestling just become in the past two years right so you think we're like this far ahead when it as it BEC comes to um equality with um women and men but then there's things like that that still pop up of like oh no there now now we have a girls team I know and it's like we had girls like there are like lots of girls that are like competing in like it it just like it wasn't necessarily I mean it was boys wrestling but it was just San as sanctioned as wrestling like football so girls were allowed to be but it's like like by the time they get to be senior year like a 130 lb boy is is like like there are girls that go out and compete like have won gold medals in the Olympics and women's wrestling from Indiana that like didn't qualify for State uh in the boys division just you know based on that and like weight cutting and all those things and now it's like Sarah hildbrand from pen won a gold medal she's badass like Kayla Miracle has been on the Olympic team twice she was from Culver military like I just got to listen to her speak and she's like she said the same thing where it's good but it's like also why did it take this long I never got to go compete for a State title and now like girl which she's was really pumped up about the opportunity and she's on the Olympic stage so it's like you know like she's got bigger fish to fry versus like complaining about high school wrestling but it's like it was cool to see this now um so so yeah as we talk about you know these these issues so I keep cutting you off and like no no it's fine um yeah so I mean that is that's something that we're really paying a lot of attention to is mental health and social media is not going away um you you know bullying's not going away how are we going to how do we instill that confidence and those tools to be a leader and these spaces it's a it's crazy like social media that's what that's the topic we were on and it's like the comparison it's like you know it used to be it's like okay you're maybe comparing yourself to like the 00 kids in your grade or whatever it is and it's like you don't like just with the online and the constant presence of of people that like make themselves a lot of is fake and like look a lot better or like are make a lot more money or are so much cooler like the hustle culture and all these things and it's like to be a 12 13 14 year old on Instagram and you're like oh my gosh I'm not I'm not Mark Zuckerberg and I haven't changed the world by the time I'm 12 or whatever you know it's like oh my gosh I'm a failure oh my gosh this and then like people can make their fake accounts and Bully each other and it's it's terrifying it's terrifying and so that's our job is to try to come in and help with the tools that are needed and then how to be a leader in that space so if you do see it's just like on the um playground you see kids being bullied how can you step in and help and and what are those tools and resources that that you need to have to do that but also it's that that inner confidence that we're trying to build as well and so I think that body image um is still a very big thing um with girls um there's still eating disorders and you know this beautification um where everything needs to be perfect your face has to be perfect and um so forth so that's not that's not changed but it's getting better I think because I think more girls are having more conversations about that but also this um um having a seat at the table is also huge and so a lot of I mean still boardrooms are still predominantly male especially you know At The Fortune 500 companies how are we going to fix that and you know even in um I went to DC in April and even walking around some of the offices very male dominated offices how are we going to fix that how are our girls going to who don't have a background or folks that can help you know have that um family thing where that you can get a job because of who you have in your family how do we ensure that we are making those connections so that our girls can have those jobs how do they become the next Supreme Court justice of Indiana how do we get them there because we take them into the the cube at the state house and we show them all the pictures of all the men that have come before them and they can visualize all the females that are going to come next and that's powerful and that's what we do so it's the it's it's all the things when you ask like what we're focused on it's still all the things there are still um basic human rights that are um being questioned um at you know local state and federal levels and so how are we ensuring that our girls have a voice that we give them the tools to have a voice and I'm not saying to go out and take a stance because we are very bipartisan at girls in of grader Indianapolis we're 501c3 and we are very um open but we also need our girls to know what their options are that voting matters um that being a self- Advocate matters and then sticking up for each other um and ensuring that they're um fighting for each other yeah and I think a piece of is education right on both sides like both sides I mean I'm I'm 27y old white dude like I I can't even begin to like imagine of like like the conversations that have to be had and things like that but I'm like also comfortable being like Oh I want to learn like I want to have you know people that are out there fighting this fight and like know how I can support and help and so I'd love the not it's like okay if you are you know like the Fortune 500 like let's say uh Dave Rick CE of he's an avid listener to the get in podcast wink wink I I I doubt it but maybe you know maybe we'll send this one to him but it's like what can you do as like if you are a male that's in one of these male dominated Industries and you're like okay cool like I'm doing pretty well but I want to open the door and I want to help uh bring this next generation of men women boys girls like you want people to come in and like make that equal opportunity what can we do yeah so I think it's access and opportunity um and so it's encouraging if you are a Dave brick it's encouraging your staff to continue you hear that Dave yeah you know but Lily is one of our our top supporters and champions the the women and men that we work with at Lily are just they're incredible um from coming to do basic uh cleanup up on our property on Lily Day of Service to um funding you know our Eureka program in in capacity they're just incredible already so I want to put that out there doing great work but you know it it is continuing that continuing that investment um especially um as it relates to to girls and then also you know girls that live in underserved communities um you know 82% of our girls identify as girls of color which is incredible because that means that we are reaching the populations that need us the most but are also that we are diversifying things which is something that that has to happen um we need to be able to get to change up for the inclusivity of what we're trying to do with Society right I think it's interesting we have Lily in our backyard and like Cummins is not super far away probably a little bit closer to like Shelby County and there there but like what's in like you talk about Wayne County like there's no Lily out there like maybe Alano is like somewhere half the old Alano building was like halfway in between it's like we do have this option to like you can go and tour Eli Lily because maybe it's uh in the greater Indianapolis area and that's not super far sure and there are like when I think about my hometown two hours North it's like there was no like there's no anyone in stem really you know and it's like uh I'm curious and I don't know if you would know but like what are the more rural areas doing to like expose these These Girls to these careers in stem when like it's not super prevalent already there yeah that's a really good question and I um will try to but I'm not going to speak for my my colleagues but I do think we have curriculum that um can be used across the network um we're actually having a conversation today we have a curriculum officer that works for us at at Girls Inc Indie but we think that um she can help out with some of the other rule um areas to help rewrite some curriculum too so it's sharing those resources that yes in Anapolis has access to lots of things that other rural counties do but how can we help each other in the network to sure that all girls are getting um equal pieces of information yeah and and it's like goes back to that one of the original statements that you made of like just being able to see it you know like I remember this is from my experience and I'm obviously not a girl and uh but like seeing that like oh they were like jobs in Tech and like now I host a podc like I didn't know I didn't know anyone who knew anyone that hosted a podcast when I was growing up and so it's like you live in this rural community maybe you're out in like Centerville Wayne County and you like then get to even if it's Skype like someone you know like a director VP whoever gets on from Lily and he's like okay here was my journey and I went to Rose like you're like oh man like just because like my mom and my aunt and whoever like didn't have this type of life does it mean that I can't go like run this down and like make this dream come a reality absolutely and that's what I think is so powerful that sometimes like if you're the person in the seat like if there are any women in stem like not even you don't even have to be the CEO or the VP but like you're you know you're working in the field like telling your story and helping out and like helping paint this picture might influence one two 10 100 A Thousand Lives of girls that are that are coming up after you absolutely and what I would say about that too is if you are a female leader in one of those rural areas reach out any I I know I'm speaking for my colleagues um but but Ty um the CEO in in Wayne County she's incredible we keep talking about Wayne County um but um just reach out see what how you can help what you can do because you're right the virtual programming or even if you're close by you can stop in and have those conversations and you know all of the girls inks also run by almost entirely philanthropic support and so that means we have to raise dollars in order to um ensure that our programs are reaching the maximum amount of girls and so that's a piece to this too and so yeah what is what does fundraising for Girls Inc look like corporate foundations individual um donations across you know a fiscal year sometimes we have some multi-year grants too um so it is it's a lot so take us take us through that then right if there's a if there's a CEO of a company and you know like hey we want to give back there maybe their stem they want to give back to Girls Inc how could they get involved in a company level or if there's just some individuals you're like hey you know tax season's coming up and I got a couple G's that I want to toss into something you know perfect yeah so so take us through like what that would look like or are there like campaigns specifically that you guys do every year or is there a Gala like I mean there's all sorts of fun things I'm sure yeah for sure so um basic the basic answer is to visit our website you know girls and and.

org to to have more information but then we so fundraising is my background philanthropy is my background you were at the children's museum for 12 years 12 years and you're in development yes oh my so you're professional at this well and I I was I forget what I was doing but it was talking about um our past career and if our younger s thought we would be here and I'm telling you when I graduated depa I would have laughed at you if you would have told me that I was in development because asking people for money was not something I thought that I would ever be in but the recession happened I took an unpaid internship at the Children's Museum and I basically stayed there for 12 years um in different positions so that's my background as philanthropy and so I don't um ever want to get into a partnership that is kind of a oneandone type thing I really want to figure out what your motivations and aspirations are for your Phil philanthropic giving so I can pair them with ours so that there's a good fit so like um with Lily for instance they don't necessarily yes there are women in leadership but their focus is on stem and so we're going to try to place them in our stem programming marketing firms that do um you know personal branding we're going to try to pair them with what we do with young women in leadership or with our summer camp experience so we're really trying to think through how to pair how you can also help with programming and it's not just the check it goes beyond the check it goes about that impact and what programming piece you can enhance for us and there there is a little bit of like when you think of the entire landscape of Indiana like the common thing that people are always complaining about is talent and it's like and I don't think I realized until I don't 25 26 of like I was so nervous to go get the job and I was like oh my gosh like there's so many people that could and like there's not it's not that competitive I mean there are jobs that are very very competitive and don't don't think that I'm saying there's not but like the idea of like Indiana needs top talent and like when you think as a business leader right we're going to keep using the Dave Ricks analogy where it's like if you can grow these these leaders these stem future stem leaders from the ground up you know what you talk about kindergarten yeah five years old five years old like I don't is that pre I don't even know it's it can be preschool or kindergarten like like you're started you're talking about like you I don't know whatever their their their annual gift to girls inas but it's like you're that's like a future Talent pipeline it's going to come to fruition in a decade and a half you know like 15 years from now that girl that you invested in when she was 5 years old like might be coming to look for her first internship at Eli Lily or at the Heritage group or whatever it is and it's like thinking I mean that is just like crazy for me to think like that long and that far ahead but like you're solving tomorrow's problems with the the money that you're investing today and having that like I don't know that that's kind of cool to me to think where it's like okay a girl could go from uh Shortridge here in Indianapolis to Rose Holan come back and intern at Ro or lily or whereever ever these cool stem places are and then end up getting their first full-time job there being near hopefully their family all this fun stuff versus like having to go to the East Coast or the West Coast or wherever to go get a job in in the field absolutely and sometimes that 5-year-old girl will be we will place her in an internship at the Heritage group for instance because if you stay a girl's in girl that whole time because in the Eureka program years four and five have a summer internship component to it and so we pair our girls with our our partners and they do a 4 we internship they're high schoolers they're 11th and 12th graders but they are I don't even know I have so much respect for them they're incredible incredible girls and they come in and they just blow everybody away with their internships they're like they're in high school I'm like yes I know but they're a Girling girl and they're awesome so it's those those type of things so if you think about what you just said from five to the internship there is an example of it might be a girl in girl that whole time being with us we place in that high school internship she goes off to college and then she comes right back boomerangs right back to have a a job at one of these places and full cycle and then becomes a mentor for girls yes exactly we have we have those we have some of those situations um we had a Girls Inc Alum come and work for us for a couple years um and that was awesome because she could talk about her story and the impact and the confidence that um being part of Girls Inc um had for her so our whole goal is essentially Workforce Development um at the end of the day because we want to try to get our girls into College and Career and then be part of society thriving in society yeah and that sounds uh like yeah Workforce Development is like a piece of there too but I also I do love the personal building blocks right and and I don't know if everyone especially like maybe the male audience like kind of gets that uh and I think you've done a great job of like descri like the confidence and I mean the three the three pillars right strong smart and bold like I kind of think that's like the the the opposite of kind of when you think of like traditionally right where it's like okay look pretty sit still all and there was so many like female Anthem bangers on the radio that are just like the anti- that which I'm like I love it it's fun um which is always good stuff and so I know that you talk about these outcomes right and one of the things that I thought was crazy was the data shows that 70 73% of Girls Inc teens have not skipped a day of school and I know like when you're thinking of like like my eyes SCH like not that many people skipped a ton cuz we were like 70 people graduating class so it was like very but in these big schools you know like you're talking Carmel or Warren Central or Arsenal Tech downtown like there are a lot a lot of kids there and like there's not like the same teacher to student ratio where they're like hey where is where's Nate he skipped two days of school so like for the fact that you guys have been able to what 73% of your girls like have not skipped a day of school that's incredible are there other outcomes like that that I mean maybe you know the data or like roughly the data like off the top of your head where it's like hey these outcomes are meaningfully more different because they went through this programming yeah so I mean the the areas that we you know there's confidence um have had an increase in confidence how do you measure that it's a it's through the pre- and post survey and to be honest that's why we are in um this project with with Leo at Notre Dame is because we my uh coo Michelle um and I have looked at the the data that we get and we want to go deeper we really want to know why what does that impact just from a qualitative um survey that that you know brings out these um percentage points but you know it is also um had an um continuation of stem learning so if you drop um I think it's at in sixth grade um if you lose sight of your stem interest you're never going to get it back as a girl so no way like sixth grade yes yes so if you like are told and a lot of girls too are still told that you know maybe that's not right for you you know chemical engineering I don't know you know so there's still that um pressure from either family or friends that you know stem's not for you we if you are interested in stem we want to keep you interested in stem and so we track that too of that girls interest um Rose here or um reading levels increased um interest and reading increased so there's um 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just like keeping stem on the radar and it doesn't have to look like chopping up cells on a microscope or whatever but like almost every job these days is like somehow tied to techn ology you know like at least from my perspective like what I see in Indianapolis in like the big city it's like everyone works Tech or Tech enabled Tech adjacent Tech this Tech that like so being around that and like seeing how more of these things work it's like for anyone out there is like oh maybe you should like that you're doing them a disservice like at least like be around it and like if you want to be part of robox club or whatever it is like I I love it I think it's super super smart yeah and you don't I was at a um speaking at a cumin event last week and one of the girls asked if you don't like math how do you stay in a stem field or how important is a love of math and to be honest there are some careers that you need basic math and some that you need a ton of math and so I think it's having those conversations with folks that are in those fields to really understand like what was their background um what kind of um educational side went into where they are because sometimes it it's not a linear path either so you know I'm a Communications political SC science uh major from depa and I'm in I'm a CEO of a nonprofit you know so it wasn't until later in my career at the children's museum that I decided I wanted my masters in public affairs so I could do this side um but that that wasn't linear right and so I think that it's important that women tell their story to our girls too to show that there is lots of different options when I when I think I wish there was like a web where it was like stem and it was like all the jobs that are that are stem in the stem field but like that you wouldn't suspect right I feel like at it's like science then you're thinking like okay you're in a laboratory somewhere or maybe like the medical field technology you're thinking like developer yeah e engineering like you're I don't know Building Bridges or whatever and like What's um math math oh yeah like what is he what who is a mathematician I don't know I I would say I know a lot of college graduates I don't know anyone who's a professional mathematician you know no offense to any mathematicians out there that listen well well talk to me about what's coming down the pipeline right so 2025 is just around the corner this will be the start of year three the beginning of year three for you what's coming down what what do we have to look forward to so this entire past year um we have been working on a new strategic plan um so I have an amazing board um they are all Hands-On ready to do this work with me um we have uh our Charter includes Maran Hamilton hendrickx and Boon counties and we have historically only operated in Maran County and I I don't know truly why um I think it's just resources that we have but we want to expand we want to ensure that we are getting um the the donut counties too um to be part of our programs because we know the need is up there as well so what we've done is we've built out the Strategic plan but we also did a fe feasibility study alongside it which showed us exactly what schools there are 57 schools and those four counties that we should be in um the most high need schools and that doesn't mean just um the demographic of students it also means resources that are being funneled into those schools because sometimes you know um poor schools have a ton of resources being poured in and so where are the ones that are are being missed in this so what's what's the number one school where who needs Girls Inc the most they maybe don't know it yet well um so IPS is still um ranking the highest of where we need to be the most but there are some schools in Noblesville there's Pike there's Lawrence there's there's a there's a bunch out there that um we need to be in um and so it's with the IPS um partnership that we have we worked with we went from the top it was Dr Johnson and then her team on getting us in those schools and so the next couple years if you're listening out there in the other counties I want girls L is coming your way yeah I want to start to get to know um the folks out there so that we can build programming but we it has to we have they have to be ready for us and we have to be ready for them because the last thing I want to do is come into a school and then leave because that's not doing any good especially when you're talking about like the longevity right it's like you if you come in and it's you know third graders it's like you're kind of making the commitment like hey when you get to be an eighth grader like you're gonna have the option to be in this Eureka program that'll get like is a very long so it's like better sometimes in like uh when you're growing it's like better to go fast I think like with you guys it's like you better to do it the right way and be because you're building for like the longevity yes um you did talk about Partnerships right so partnership with IPS what are some of the other Community Partners that you're working with that have made a huge impact in what girlink is doing yeah so we're at a couple of the community centers too the Ed the Martin Christian Center we're doing um some of our programming over there and then we're also working with Cafe um on the near East Side to be able to bring some programming out there as well um so that means working with those um centers with their leaders to ensure that we um are are doing the right area so you know our different programs are um customized so you Ra's stem we have young women in leadership that's all leadership sometimes that's not what our girls need in those um areas and so we go back to the Basics um and do our Empower Hub program which is really the comprehensive whole girl focused program so we um we don't want to just come in and cookie cut throw something down um and hope for the best we really want to work with our partners to ensure it is exactly what our girls need um at the right time so there's that but then we also have amazing Partnerships with like new Sho day um they shout out Casey yeah um they they gave over a hundred pairs of new shoes to our summer campers this year and it was just it's the the simple concept of a new pair of shoes can make an entire girl's year some people like don't maybe if you've always had good shoes and the the budget to always buy shoes like it it doesn't always click for people but then I always like remind with this I go back to like seventh grade uh and if you were when you were in seventh grade you got the pair of gym shoes that were like limited use only it's like you can only wear them during gym class and when you put on those like new Nikes and like not the offbrand ones like when you get that's what one of the big things is like it's not like just the quantity it's like it's a mental you get this confidence when you put on like a nice pair of JS and go play basketball during lunch or whatever during gym class and the confidence that builds where it's like oh I got my I got some Swagger today I'm ready to rock like and that's one thing where I love to see where it's like you're working on building confidence and it's like Pat mcfey kind of says it right if you look good feel good if you feel good you play good if you play good they pay good and it's like starts it's can the confidence can come from just like a pair of shoes or like you know looking presentable and feeling good when you walk into school on a Tuesday Morning absolutely yeah so that was that was awesome um and we actually got connected with new Shu day through our partnership with the Colts too and so what's really cool is that some of my um colleagues from the Children's Museum are now we're all kind of out in the community and we're still working together and so okay well this is going to be a fun one let's let's dive into like your partnership with the Colts because they typically like football is it's the NFL's guys right and it's guys doing you know playing football and hitting each other really hard how are the Colts investing in an organization Like Girls Inc so through flag football and then also we're going back to this women in leadership and so they hosted a group of our girls um at the 56 complex the yeah the the training center the training center yes and so they brought in um leadership to do a panel but then we also had these lunch sessions with different jobs that the Colts that our girls could learn from from ticketing to Market marketing to analytics and so that talking about experience and opportunity some of our girls were like what there's an analytics job at like in football and well yeah you know figure and you and then you also like the on the screen stuff like you're seeing all that like stem going directly to sports like it's crazy and that's super cool to see like their the Colts investment to flag football and like I mean think about the leadership within the Colts you have Jim but like then his daughters like have a huge like very very active handson relationship with the Cults yeah absolutely and so you know if you can see it then you can believe it um and then even um moving past just the the Cults piece we have also kicking the stigma we work with them on on some mental health programming and bringing in some um additional mental health support with with some interns that are um you know either studying social work or um having those key pieces to help out our staff as it relates to the Mental Health crisis that is happening with our girls and when you think about sports and girls uh how crazy has the last year been with Caitlyn Clark coming to Indie amazing and how have you seen I hate to like this is not like click baity like let's talk about Caitlyn but it's real right it's like when girls in Indianapolis see all the amazing things that Caitlyn is doing and like the massive endorsement deals and like like WNBA is making legitimate like big big dollars now like how how does that feel and how are you seeing girls whether they're you know five or fifth grade or 15 uh reacting to to seeing Caitlyn yeah I almost like get emotional like I get like um you know chills and I'm going to try not to like be emotional about this but it's okay to beo love been such um an an amazing past year to watch what has happened with with girl Sports um we have such an amazing relationship with the Pacers and the fever they're just phenomenal Partners um in both program um Partnerships and then also um we have a a couple board members that are from the Pacers and the fever but um we also are part of the NBA math Hoops um cohort so I don't know if you're familiar with NBA math Hoops not okay well you need to look into it because it's amazing it's a a basketball game that's all about math so it's a board game um and it's all about um doing equations and being able to shoot um either two-pointers or three-pointers it's so cool I like nerd out about it I think a lot of the um middle schools and high schools IPS they have access to math Hoops but our girls did math hoops this summer and we actually got to go um to gamebridge and had like a private NBA math Hoops day our girls got to be on the same court um that The Fever play on and our girl one of the girls I'll never forget it said I am breathing the same air as Caitlyn Clark that's crazy that's awesome you know and it's just like and I I don't know if I mean if I I think about it when I'm growing up I wouldn't have had access to go to gamebridge and you know be on the court like so being able to bring our girls to have that experience it's just it's so incredible to think about think about when you were growing up it was like who would who was the woman that you were like I got to breed the same air as who like I do think like the more of like amplication amplifying the more we can amplify these stories of women doing amazing things especially in an industry like basketball basketball's industry and like Kaitlyn is like selling more jerseys than I don't know like almost every NBA player like I don't I don't know the full math it but like she's selling a ton of jerseys which is amazing and it's like playing basketball at the highest level um but but the initial question is like who was that you know uh in the past and and who's kind of like who do you see around there that are like great role models for for girls man that is a really really tough question I think a lot of my um my my teachers were those Role Models um just seeing um them pour into um pour into us in all different kinds of levels I mean my mom um is is one of those folks for me too she was a working mom um and I just saw her just kill it she was a um High School principal that um just she's so good at what she did and she just yeah my dad was a high school principal too so I like you know there there's a whole there's a whole episode on that all right at different schools yes at different schools but still up in the region so I grew up in valarezo oh let's go Vikings yes yeah my dad was at Valpo and and my mom was at um LOL and then Hein for um so like if they would play like in sports was there like a little bit of like inner inh house rivalry yeah it was pretty fun to watch oh man and it's like what what Jersey do you have on you're like well what the scoreboard I like switch sides have a reversible shirt right there you go well I was a viking through and through though so there we go all right I love that um okay so what's one thing about Girls Inc that you wish more people knew it's we are just such a unique organization and so I think a lot of times you think through like women and girls organizations and and you you put us in a youth youth serving organization bucket we're so much more than that though so you know we have programs but we are really invested and the whole girl so we are invested in um Susie from 5 to 24 we are she is a Girls Inc girl and she belongs um in at Girls Inc right even across the country like even if she moves she can still be a Girls Inc girl um and it's the passion that we have inside um as it relates to our staff and our board we are all in all the time and that's my husband so going full circle back to your intro he just he's my biggest champion too but he knows how much this organization means to me like personally and professionally that at a farmer market I was like Matt no I am not I'm in mom mode I'm out of this and he's like you are never out of this and so like the whole introduction there like awesome yeah I just like I carry it with me because it's so important to me and I would say Matt hopefully he listens to this like like that's the kind of like Advocate I hope to like grow into and like be like one day I'm I'm unmarried and unfathered like I I am I am very very not at that stage yet but like that's that's a great role model of how to be an advocate even and like be part of Girls Inc even if you are a a guy and a dad right and it's like hey you can go there and like cheer you on like I mean all you need to bring him we should have brought him and he could have done the intro he would have done a way better job than me holy SM oh my gosh no but yeah so um to your point uh we need men and um boys to be advocates in this space just as much as we need women because if we're if we're not we're not going to move the needle well and to the point right so Girls Inc has a whole uh girl Dad yes like talk to me about that I was like looking through that I was like and girl dad's hot right now like being a girl dad like with Travis Kelsey no no no sorry Jason Kelsey like it has never been hotter like it was Dad bod now it's girl Dad it is and oh my gosh yes so you know and Taylor Swift is coming like I just it's it's all you know interconnected here um no so the um girl dad campaign really started to just Advocate um to have a a platform for for dads and for men to get more involved with our organization and so highlighting the importance of having dads cheering along their girls because you know studies show that if you have that support so like my dad never clipped my wings I I you know could have gone for anything and he would have supported that and that is so powerful and and where I am today and so having both mom and dad supporting you or whoever your parental it's not always Mom and Dad whoever your parental or your your Guardians are supporting you um is so important so we started there but then the Indianapolis Indians Charities got really involved um and invested in girl dad and so they are the presenting sponsor of girl dad shout out Randy Randy's a previous guest so great work Randy great work Shane we love that um and yes so I met Randy for the first time when um I had to throw out the first pitch and I know you did that too I have never been more nervous in my entire life it's terrifying I I can't even describe how nervous I was and yeah it was like it's like it doesn't it doesn't matter it does matter it's fun it's all stuff but it's like but like you don't want to like skip it across there like what how did it go for you it went fine it it it went was in the yes it was in the air um my 8-year-old um was out in the backyard with me practicing for a week before so he thinks I'm really cool so that's that's a win for now um but yeah they um their staff members also just did a big girl dad kind uh social media post about what it means to be a girl dad and so it's really cool to highlight some of those jobs at the Indians and then um they're just such incredible Partners helping us push throughout so Shane is the director of communication over there and he actually just became a girl dad uh within the last year so uh his baby Elliot so he coaches wrestling with me at Shard so we're like we're really i' be able to like see what he crushes it with um with the Indians as well as he's a coach for us and like and he just became a girl dad so like I love they're all in on that CU like they're they're breathing living breathing examples of like what it means to be you know be the ultimate cheerleader for your girls as we're growing up absolutely yeah so we we love the girl dad campaign um we love our partnership with the Indians it's just another way to um brand awareness um of what we're doing and so if we can have anybody come back from that campaign to support girls in gindy we we've done our job okay once a lot of these clips end up on Instagram right and so you know we just talked about like how middle schoolers are maybe a little bit attached to their phones but out there it's like if there are middle school high school I hopefully there's elementary girls like finding these clips on Tik Tac but maybe you know like like who are the right obviously all girls but like like what would be like your sales pitch like hey if you're interested in XY Z come be a part of Girls Inc if you are a girl that just wants a community needs some mentor ship um is interested in um becoming a leader in their Community not even um not even talking CEO level leader even if it's just like leading your volleyball auxiliary team um or wanting to find some build off your confidence or or just be part of this community that is all about for lack of better words girl power um and and advocacy and all the awesome things that um are that mean to be a girl um to focus on girl Le issues and um girl-led support come find us yeah and I think that like this one might be even more applicable right where it's like everyone that listens to this knows a girl and so like what might be a few of the signs or ways where you're like oh like suggesting uh Girls Inc could be good for uh a young lady in your life yeah I mean again I think it can be anybody um it really is geared towards everybody it's not a i sometimes when you talk about after school programs and youth serving organizations it's this intervention piece of oh you know the the troubled girls need to go to Girls Inc that is not us at all and so that is a something that I say upfront that this is not this is for everybody this is not you don't get put in Girls Inc because you need extra support you get put in Girls Inc because you're awesome and and that could be anybody and I think like specifically like the leadership like wanting to be like hey if if your daughter needs NE was like I want to be the captain of the team it's like great like there's this organization that's going to help with leadership development or I want to be a a research scientist one day obviously it's for everyone but I do think like when you're competing for time like it's there's when you're a kid there's more things to do than ever and it's like we see this with as a wrestling coach right I see it's like it becomes challenging or whatever they I'm going to quit I'm going to go join video game club or this or that other there's like so many things that take their time up and so it's like finding these these ways where yes girls in is for everyone and like what the signs those indicators about like you know girls in stem and girls that want to be leaders and about confidence and you're like you know what like this is a a great organization that's going to help give you those building blocks for sure yeah and I think that you know a lot of our schools help us identify um you know the girls that should be part of our programs but then it's also this word of mouth it's really crazy you just friends and you Friends start to see what girls inin G and then it just builds and builds and builds from there and it's awesome when you go into the school and it's like girls Inc day all the girls are like it's Girls Inc day and you're like we've done something like there is excitement about I don't know I wasn't always excited about going to school but everybody is always excited about Girls Inc day heck yeah I love that so so as you think of 2025 we have the same conversation at this point next year what's like one big thing that you've hoped that Girls Inc accomplishes well you know this is um it's such a team effort um our our entire team um is Unified in this approach of how we're going to what GG 2.

0 is and when I say GG Girls Inc are greater Indianapolis I know not everybody gets that reference but um sometimes we say Gigi sometimes we say Girls Inc Indie but I think it's that all of our programs are are at capacity that our recruitment has worked um and that it has worked across the board right so it's not just one school being recruited like we have done a really good Equitable recruiting strategy it's that all of our programs have Equitable access to Opportunities because that's also really important transportation is really hard for us and so it's figuring out how we make sure that we have buses for field trips so that all of our 1500 girls get the same experience in their programs and then it's also increasing the number of girls reached um I think everybody um in our organization wants to see that grow because that just means that we' have just changed more lives or or been able to have more of an impact across the board heck yeah and so besides referring referring girls to girls in how can how can individuals help support what you all are doing so volunteering so it's it's the the classic you know Time treasure and and talent and so um of course we need philanthropic dollars but we also need volunteers um to come and help at schools and so we have um on our website there's a volunteer form that you can fill out we try to pair you with the right experience because we also need volunteers to show up and so sometimes I mean I've been guilty of this like I think I can do everything and then Saturday comes and it's like oh I don't know if I can do that so we just make sure that that everybody's the the biggest thing we can do is show up for each other the biggest thing we can do is just show up for our girls and even if there's just one person that's believing in them that can make all the difference so we talked about that 73% I think it's be the the indicator there is that you have somebody that believes in you someone that sees you someone that shows up for you every single week and that I know that sounds really simple but it's not always the case for a lot of kiddos I think that sometimes when you grow up like whether your Mom Dad Grandma Grandpa whoever it was always like cheered you on and it's like easy to like take that for granted it and to be like oh yeah like well you go home to like a loving household where everyone's like oh my gosh you can go be anything you want like not everyone is getting that voice right exactly getting that voice in their head of like oh someone's like you know telling them to go change the world and be whatever they want to be um and I love that I love the mission that you guys are that are on and um I hope that like the right people and volunteers whether it's like with your your time your treasure your talent like hear this and and end up being part of what you guys are doing I do think it is super important that like you like volunteering like I feel like volunteers are like I can volunteer everywhere I'll be the food bank and I'll do this and I'll do that and it's like having like let's say 10 10 really really dialed in volunteers that like want to come and like like really Vibe with the mission is sometimes more beneficial than a 100 part- timr that like like you have you can get 10 people that want to show up and make an impact in these girls lives like it's going to go I don't know a million times farther it really is and so even if you are a small company um with a a team of volunteers that that's helpful too this is we don't have to all be the at the Lily stage you know so if there is a a group of employees that want to give back in some way please you know let us know yeah or anyone are in stem or like that might want to be like hey come check out how I don't know rubber is made or whatever it is like I think of like all the different places around India and maybe Northern Indiana what's going on why are why do we have no Girls Inc up there I don't know I mean so you know my my my board's listening they're like oh don't say that but in like next 10 years I would love to see us be um um and I I'm not alone in this I think it's it's a Wei I think we'd want to be um more Northern too um just because we know there is so much need out there there there was a study done of the need um you know I grew up in Northwest Indiana I know for sure that there's need up there Continental Tire come on yes yes right yeah yeah that's like they have a huge Hub up there like Valpo area I think it's like there's there's got to be some women in stem up there um amazing well this has been fun we do have a fun couple fun segments here at the end that we always kind of go through so first question this is our younger years segment and this question is brought to you by our friends at or Fellowship so they're a great organization here in Indianapolis they also have a branch in Evansville and they're helping develop young Business Leaders across the state so Lindsay what advice would you give to your 22-year-old self it's the power of relationships and and how it's not immediate but you will see it in the next 10 years if you um cultivate those relationships and you know everybody always tells you like go Network go here go there pick those networks and and pour into them and then um it it's going to pay off and so what I'm super proud of of is the network of of friends colleagues um that I have across Indianapolis because I started off um at 22 trying to build those relationships and just do things sign up for them find what what you like what you don't it's it's board service it's uh volunteering get involved in your community because you have no idea where that's going to take you heck yeah I love that and I do think like their your 10year vision on that right is super important where it's like a lot of people when they think like networking it's like okay I want to go out and I want to network because it's like this this immediate gratification like someone's going to open the right door today and it's like that door might not open for 10 years but it's like you're kind of like planting the seeds and then it's your job to water it and you know give it sunlight and all those fun things now we're ready for the lightning round okay so this is where we're going to have some fun some fun female questions and some fun Indiana questions okay so first one is I just want to know who's your favorite female leader it's Mel Reigns she's my favorite female leader um I I think that she just her whole leadership story is just so powerful I love that we're going to get even more local right so what's your favorite female owned business in Indiana when I think of a business like silver in the city I really love to go to and I know that that is women-owned I think of like two when I think of like awesome Indiana based uh female-owned businesses like one was Angie's List okay like how cool is that to see um so Bill and Angie like start this and literally named after Angie Hicks and it grows to be like a publicly traded like a Qui like hundreds of millions of dollars like in the early 2000s like that was started I believe so it's like that's super cool uh and then I also think like ver Bradley and like the the two I think believe it's two women up in Fort Wayne I actually if anyone has an introduction to ver Bradley I don't remember what her name is off the top of my head but I think that one of the founders is still like active and popping around and I would love to have her an interview about like the process building that company that would be awesome yeah and there's a you know there's a lot of um you know smaller PR firms that that are female um owned as well and so I there's not just one but you know we have a a list that we so our vendors for instance we've done this big overhaul on the vendors that we work with and we we we TR to focus on women-owned businesses that we work with as well yeah and I would actually be doing a disservice if I didn't mention Tiffany saer at element 3 yeah yeah total badass her social media crushes it uh her whole like story of like the life of Ann and like her 20 years of growing element 3 and now like kind of like being an awesome Rockstar you know business owner Momom just crushing it like I love watching her like like I'm not a parent I the life of and Ry is really for me because like I can do go do whatever I want kind of whenever I want it but like I like watch yourself and it's super super interesting I I met her once and um I was running late because I so I have three kids I have an eight five and threeyear old and something was I don't know what happened and I was like I'm so sorry like this is such a hard like balance and she's like girl I got four kids you watch my watch my stuff on um social media and and I do because it's so relatable that being a working mom sometimes feels impossible and so yes shout out to Tiffany for that I can't even like begin to imagine like I'm like 27 and I'm running running around constantly and I'm growing this business and I'm like I don't have to go home and like hang out with a an eight a five and a three which is so beautiful and it's awesome and I hope that one day to that stage right but like kudos to you kudos to every parent out there it's just like crushing it that's awesome it's yeah okay so when you think about your team or just like vendors people you work with who is one of your favorite women to work with you know um Charlotte Hawthorne um at Eli Lily and Company Foundation she's just man she's like a mentor she's a role model she's who I want to be when I grow up she's just incredible such a good advocate for the community um and her team is awesome as well and then you have so many powerful female leaders over at cumin as well we have an amazing relationship with cumins um we have a board member Peru who's on um our board from cumins and then even you know um all the way up to Jen Ramsey who is CEO she has shown up for our girls which is just incredible heck yeah good job cumins great work um Okay so we talked about this a little bit earlier when you know like uh the opportunity I go be go be whatever you want to be when you were a little kid and you said your dad never clipped your wings so so what did you want to be when you grew up that my my mom reminds me of this um often um but I wanted to be a senator I know that's really weird um but I I wanted to be in politics as a small kid okay and did you like have a role model where you're like I see someone doing it or just like no not really I just you know I was really into Schoolhouse Rock I really I know huge is that the the I'm Just a Bill stuck here on Capital Hill yes yeah and you know I just always like really gravitated towards social studies and um so that's yeah it's kind of it's weird I did who your girl's State I believe is what it was called yes and like I um ran for Senate and my mom was like see it's coming true and then I was like I don't know about this so well we'll see I did okay that's better than I ran for like whatever I was a governor of hooer boy State and I was up there literally at the time my first job was at McDonald's so I wore my McDonald's tie which is like kind of come full circle when you think of like whatever we'll talk about that but I shook every single boy there's hand and I was like I'm Nate spangle please vote for me and I was like I'm totally going to win this got beat like shoot cuz you know I got beat the guy who did the talent show like did this crazy looping karaoke single and I was like I can't he's just cool like who wouldn't want to vote for that guy um but I love that who's your boy state who's your girl State like very if you're interested at all in politics do you think future in politics maybe maybe oh we'll see I don't know all right we're going to come back we're going to hold this we hold this CLI we'll see all right and so now we get to our normal lightning round where we just talk about some fun things around Indiana so what's something the world needs to know about Indiana when I have met people outside of Indiana it's this fly overstate it's corn fields it's you know this certain perception and if you come to Indie or any of the other cool pockets in Indiana you're just it's it's not what folks are describing to you we have amazing colleges we um downtown Indie is one of the coolest places to to be um we bring folks in and they're just like wow this is incredible but also you know I have to give a shout out to the children's museum because it is the world's biggest and best children's museum and so if you come to Indie you got to visit that they crushed it with the Taylor Swift friendship bracelets oh I know I still am very good friends with a lot of folks over there and I was just texting them like Well Done friends well done Kudos Kudos and like Al was it basketball for allstar game like they just they just did great they do um what is a Hidden Gem in Indiana so I knew this was coming because I watched your podcast come on let's go so I think it's the Central Library downtown oh so that's actually where Matt and I um we got married um in the Central Library it's just a beautiful space and you walk in and I mean you of course you have all the the resources to the library but it is just you feel like you are just transformed to a different place when I think of the library I do think it as like an event space more because I mean we've done some some different events and stuff down there it's super super cool actually fun story uh do you know Jeff smolan yeah the the CEO of mems or founder of Ms uh we had him on the podcast and we had an autograph copy of his book and I literally checked it out from the Central Library downtown awesome and then we returned it to the library after he autographed it that's awesome so there is an autographed copy of Jeff San's book floating around the the Indianapolis Central Library if anyone ever checks it out looks and I did a whole Tik to it was like this was probably like a year and a half ago so I had like no followers no one knew but I did this is totally going to go viral and then like no one ever watched it but if you go back you can find the book with his autograph and it in the Central Library that's a great Hidden Gem and no one has said that yet oh that's so that's it's always cool when someone brings a new one yeah and then final question for you Lindsay who is a hooer that we need to keep on our radar so I did the the Stanley K Lacy um Fellowship series skl was class 46 and any of the females in that shout out cuz they're incredible um you know I I I often default back to this but Andy Satler at the Colts is doing she just doing incredible stuff so she what's her Ro there she's director of community initiative sorry Andy if that's not the right title but um she's just killing it over there um and I think um as the the Colts you know continues to invest in the community it's just going to grow and so um I have to give her a shout out okay Andy said she is the director of community impact of the Indianapolis CT she's crushing it I love that Andy great work Lindsay thank you so much for being a spectacular guest and telling us about all the amazing things you're doing with Girls Inc and the stories of of these girls whether they're you know again five 15 you know going to college going to Rose homean I love that um it's just super cool to see an organization that are truly invested like in this complete growth cycle of of young women in the state of Indiana and uh all the partners out there great stuff if you want to get involved one more time time give us a plug of how we can get connected with you and learn more about what you're doing to Girls Inc yes um you I mean you can find me of course um on LinkedIn um on our website uh girlsinc indy.

org contact us we are a small team but we're a mighty team and so if you send us an email we'll get back to you in some capacity and so I I would be a Miss if I didn't shout out um the team at Girls Inc Indie because it it honestly is it it we couldn't do this without the entire team doing it together heck yeah and as we get into the end of the year tax planning season if you're looking to make any uh you know Financial contributions make sure you keep Girls Inc in mind please thank you so much uh this was awesome yes thank you so much thank you for listening to this episode of get in if you liked what you heard make sure you leave us to review wherever you listen to podcast this show is made possible by our friends up at Sweetwater whether you're trying to start your own podcast or looking to take your show to the next level make sure you check out sweetwater. com for all your creator needs if you want exclusive behind the- scenes content on all things Indiana make sure you follow me on Instagram and Tik Tok @ Nate spangle thank you for being part of what makes the hooer state so amazing we'll see you next week here on get in