Sheva Carr: Welcome to this very special members.
Sheva Carr: gathering of hard ambassadors, and… Special invitees.
Sheva Carr: Including our… Science-Based Hope for Happiness team.
Sheva Carr: We are going to start with a heart lock-in.
Sheva Carr: 2… Embrace our special guest.
Sheva Carr: In love and connection.
Sheva Carr: Which is really the spirit of what she's sharing anyway.
Sheva Carr: As hard ambassadors, our service work.
Sheva Carr: It's not really us helping the world, it's us Connecting to the world.
Sheva Carr: Because we know that intimacy… Is a key to happiness.
Sheva Carr: And that service that facilitates Connection.
Sheva Carr: Grows us as well as those we serve.
Sheva Carr: We definitely don't have a savior complex around here.
Sheva Carr: We know, in all the ways and places we help others, we benefit just as much.
Sheva Carr: So this is a sneak peek for those in the happiness class.
Sheva Carr: Of the final key.
Sheva Carr: Which is that when… Your life… is about…
Sheva Carr: Caring for each other and the world.
Sheva Carr: When you add service… To your life.
Sheva Carr: Happiness finds you, you don't need to look for it.
Sheva Carr: Not the service that's saving, that's martyring.
Sheva Carr: That does not yield happiness, in case you're wondering.
Sheva Carr: But this service that's connecting and loving.
Sheva Carr: And builds intimacy.
Sheva Carr: At this stuff.
Sheva Carr: Of reality and your own being.
Sheva Carr: And so we are going to focus attention in the area around the heart.
Sheva Carr: The chest area.
Sheva Carr: Imagine the breath is flowing.
Sheva Carr: In through the heart, and out through the heart.
Sheva Carr: Breathing a little slower, a little deeper than usual.
Sheva Carr: If you find it helpful, you can count as you breathe in.
Sheva Carr: And count as you breathe out.
Sheva Carr: On whatever rhythm works for your body.
Sheva Carr: Inviting the inhale and the exhale to be even in length.
Sheva Carr: And with that heart focused, Breathing.
Sheva Carr: Activate.
Sheva Carr: Love and connection, and radiate that to Marilyn.
Sheva Carr: Give her some ease. She's with loved ones here, not judges.
Sheva Carr: This isn't the American Idol contest of presenting what I did for my summer vacation.
Sheva Carr: There will not be any golden buzzer. She's already got the golden buzzer, but there won't be big X's that go…
Sheva Carr: And let's also radiate love and connection to the hundreds of lives that are impacted by our community's work in Zimbabwe.
Sheva Carr: And we'll rest.
Sheva Carr: In this… Care focus together.
Sheva Carr: Or 5 minutes.
Sheva Carr: Well, that's a very good moment to pause and listen.
Sheva Carr: Do your heart's intuitive guidance.
Sheva Carr: Or anything your heart wants you to know.
Sheva Carr: At the heart of post-traumatic growth.
Sheva Carr: Is the capacity to take your own pain.
Sheva Carr: And turn it into greater compassion.
Sheva Carr: And service to others.
Sheva Carr: And when you do… Everything makes sense in your rearview mirror in a totally different way.
Sheva Carr: It's like you get a Willy Wonka rearview mirror.
Sheva Carr: And everything looks different behind you.
Sheva Carr: The question came up.
Sheva Carr: On the Friday Q&A, don't I have to share all the things that happened in my past to heal them? But how can I do it? I don't have time, there's not enough years left in my life.
Sheva Carr: To process all the years of trauma.
Sheva Carr: Just get a Willy Wonka rearview mirror, or a heart-based one.
Sheva Carr: And everything in it looks different.
Sheva Carr: Instantly.
Sheva Carr: From the happiness operating system.
Sheva Carr: And with that, I'm going to pass the baton to Ms. Marilyn.
Sheva Carr: to take us with her to Zimbabwe.
Marilyn Barrett: Alright, here we go.
Marilyn Barrett: Alright, where'd it go?
Marilyn Barrett: Anything on the documents?
Sheva Carr: For those on the phone, which is the majority of our group, Marilyn is about to share a video, and she's working out her tech, so we're all gonna send her some heart.
Marilyn Barrett: It was… I had it all ready, so I gotta go back and…
Marilyn Barrett: Get it pulled up. I'll be right back.
Sheva Carr: But the most important place to go back to is where, Miss Marilyn?
Marilyn Barrett: The heart.
Sheva Carr: Ding ding ding, ding.
Marilyn Barrett: There it is.
Marilyn Barrett: Did I lose our Zoom? No, I don't think so. Am I still on?
Sheva Carr: Yeah, you're still in.
Marilyn Barrett: Yes.
Melinda Dewey: Yes.
Marilyn Barrett: Alright, let's try again.
Marilyn Barrett: There it is. Is that it? Nope.
Marilyn Barrett: Oh, you know, maybe this went into,
Marilyn Barrett: Alright, I pulled it up from here.
Marilyn Barrett: So it should go on. Why isn't it showing?
Marilyn Barrett: Click that.
Sheva Carr: I have a suggestion, Marilyn.
Marilyn Barrett: Yeah.
Sheva Carr: Start with the video and all your technology stuff.
Sheva Carr: Maybe just take a breath through your heart and share.
Sheva Carr: From your heart. First.
Sheva Carr: Something of the essence of your… your own journey with this.
Sheva Carr: Love and connection to what you experienced.
Marilyn Barrett: Well, post-travel.
Marilyn Barrett: In June.
Marilyn Barrett: It's hot.
Marilyn Barrett: Join, see if I can see. Okay, yeah, Bob's gonna join on his computer and see if he can get it going.
Marilyn Barrett: post-travel?
Marilyn Barrett: Was a lot of preparation.
Marilyn Barrett: Things I hadn't done before, 5 or 6 vaccines, just to get ready for the trip.
Sheva Carr: What is that?
Marilyn Barrett: unknowns.
Sheva Carr: Is that… that's pre-travel, before you left?
Marilyn Barrett: Free travel, yeah.
Marilyn Barrett: A flight delay, a 16-hour flight.
Marilyn Barrett: We arrived in, Johannesburg, South Africa, first.
Marilyn Barrett: Got a good night's sleep, which was already helpful, and…
Marilyn Barrett: When we arrived in… at the airport in Zimbabwe, Easton had sent a friend of his who works at the airport to meet us.
Marilyn Barrett: The moment we stepped off the plane, he showed a picture. He said, is this you?
Marilyn Barrett: And he… Helped us effortlessly get through the airport. So, basically, the trip was… was…
Sheva Carr: Those who don't know, Easton is our…
Sheva Carr: Heart Ambassador's Regional Director in Zimbabwe. He oversees
Sheva Carr: our Fiera Foundation charitable programs there.
Sheva Carr: And he's one of our HeartMath certified trainers.
Sheva Carr: Doing amazing work as a hard ambassador in the world.
Sheva Carr: And he's native to Zimbabwe, and his whole family lives there, and they're all involved.
Sheva Carr: In our projects in different ways.
Sheva Carr: His wife will let Marilyn say more, because she's been there.
Marilyn Barrett: Wait, I'm gonna send Bob the link, because he's got the video also, and see if he can get it on his computer. There we go.
Marilyn Barrett: There we go.
Marilyn Barrett: So, I think right from the start, I would say that The trip in general,
Marilyn Barrett: If I had one or two words to describe it,
Marilyn Barrett: It was… it had flow, it had connection, there was love.
Marilyn Barrett: There was,
Marilyn Barrett: Fun, laughter.
Marilyn Barrett: Awakening awareness.
Marilyn Barrett: I say that, kinesthetically, I got a,
Marilyn Barrett: a better idea of what life looks like in Africa, because I was physically there, and
Marilyn Barrett: Didn't have to have that way, but it was helpful.
Sheva Carr: There was also a lot of fear associated with it. Do you want to share any of your fears that came up before and during?
Marilyn Barrett: Well, some of the fear was… was…
Marilyn Barrett: All the vaccines that I was getting, there was fear there.
Marilyn Barrett: And, one of our Dear Heart Ambassadors shared a… a, shared with me a way…
Marilyn Barrett: To invite the vaccines to…
Marilyn Barrett: Do their high… you know, to their highest good, and that was super helpful.
Marilyn Barrett: Before each one, I would… I would…
Marilyn Barrett: I would use that meditation, and it was very helpful, and I literally had no side effects. Maybe a little inflammation at times, but basically no side effects from 5 or 6 vaccines.
Marilyn Barrett: When we first arrived, the culture shock was frightening to me.
Marilyn Barrett: It was so different.
Marilyn Barrett: And…
Marilyn Barrett: we had actually been kind of schooled. Somebody had shared with us that it was going to be a culture shock and explained it, and… and it was.
Marilyn Barrett: in the first night, I messaged a thread with a number of hard ambassadors that were on… on the thread,
Marilyn Barrett: And I… I just… I asked for heart.
Marilyn Barrett: And I breathed in love, and I, you know, I used my tools that night, and there was a very… I felt like there was a…
Marilyn Barrett: A big shift.
Marilyn Barrett: Pretty quickly, but at first, I was really scared.
Marilyn Barrett: Eastern Emmanuella, who… who we stayed with for the first 4 days in Zimbabwe,
Marilyn Barrett: We're kind, and generous, and compassionate, and…
Marilyn Barrett: they embraced us wholeheartedly. Eason is trying to get on, as we know he oftentimes has network challenges, but he's still trying to get on on this, Zoom today.
Marilyn Barrett: Here we go.
Marilyn Barrett: Thank you, Bob.
Marilyn Barrett: There we go.
Sheva Carr: You guys travel like we do.
Marilyn Barrett: Wait a minute, so… Jean Marie, I'll try very hard to describe the pictures I'm showing.
Marilyn Barrett: We had extra luggage. We had at least… the two suitcases at the bottom were filled with things that were sent by, thank you, Bob… were sent… filled with things that were sent by, Easton's, boss, who lives here in Columbus, Ohio, just about a couple hours from Bob and I.
Marilyn Barrett: So we picked up things he wanted to send with us for Easton, and we thought it was just gonna be a duffel bag. It was two full duffel bags full of stuff, and then we had other things that he… that we were bringing also as well.
Sheva Carr: Yeah, from Heart Ambassadors for their sponsor kids.
Marilyn Barrett: Yep, and we just had… we had… those suits… two red suit… red and black suitcases at the bottom were loaded with stuff we left there.
Marilyn Barrett: We… when we were in South Africa, we wrapped them. We had them wrapped in cellophane.
Marilyn Barrett: Because that's what we were told to do. All our suitcases that we were putting through needed to be wrapped in cellophane to keep them safe.
Marilyn Barrett: And when we got to the Zimbabwe airport, Easton's friend inside the airport, his name was Tim also.
Marilyn Barrett: He literally scooped us up, and he took us through every step. There was no thought, no thinking that we needed to do to figure anything out once we stepped off the plane.
Marilyn Barrett: And here, here's a picture, in the very front yard of Easton on the left.
Marilyn Barrett: Emmanuella is on the right.
Marilyn Barrett: And their oldest daughter, Emmy, we call her.
Marilyn Barrett: Oh, there's got yet. Wait, Bob, don't shift yet. And then…
Marilyn Barrett: There we go. Okay, yeah, thank you. Next one.
Marilyn Barrett: And this is just an example of the hospitality that they provided for us.
Marilyn Barrett: Emmanuella is a wonderful cook.
Marilyn Barrett: And… she made us…
Marilyn Barrett: amazing breakfast. This was a breakfast that she provided for us. Every day, she made the most amazing breakfast. Now, you have to understand that
Marilyn Barrett: This is their living room and their dining room. This is a small house on the back of their property.
Marilyn Barrett: Bob, can you go back one slide, please?
Marilyn Barrett: Okay, but that's a brick wall around their property. I just wanted to see that. That brick wall is around their property. Okay, go forward.
Marilyn Barrett: We can go over a few minutes if we need to.
jeannemarie: We eat for breakfast.
Marilyn Barrett: Oh, go back.
Marilyn Barrett: You know, go back to the breakfast slide, please.
Marilyn Barrett: Okay, it was normal eggs, toast, different,
Marilyn Barrett: Sausage, bacon, but then there's also, there could have been anything from different kinds of eggs, and…
Marilyn Barrett: Always coffee.
Marilyn Barrett: What was I gonna say? One time she served cake for breakfast, because she wanted us to taste the cake that she makes, and it is… it was superb.
Marilyn Barrett: Always… there's always beans.
Marilyn Barrett: Am I missing anything? You're far away, Pop.
Marilyn Barrett: Breakfasts were similar to our breakfasts.
Marilyn Barrett: And before every meal, there's hand washing. That's pretty common, that someone in the household
Marilyn Barrett: Holds the bowl, and somebody pours the water. That's real common.
Marilyn Barrett: A lot of times, and the picture on the right, my daughter… well, no, one of my clients knew we were going, and I told her that my daughter was making bracelets for us to hand out to the children that we were going to train in Zimbabwe.
Marilyn Barrett: So, this client, her daughter was… is in a program where they wanted to make bracelets for us, so they sent, like, 300 bracelets for… for the children that we were going to be training.
Marilyn Barrett: My daughter made string bracelets, so before we left, we tied on string bracelets for each other, little friendship bracelets. We're in a contest now. I still have mine. I said, whoever has it the longest, you know, gets a prize.
Marilyn Barrett: Go ahead, Bob.
Marilyn Barrett: The people on the left in this picture, there's a young lady on the right, And then…
Marilyn Barrett: The two young gentlemen, the lady on the right actually helps clean their house, and the two gentlemen, they, they graciously,
Marilyn Barrett: Support them to finish their… they're not called high school, it's called secondary school there.
Marilyn Barrett: And as a… in exchange for them paying for them, to finish secondary school, they…
Marilyn Barrett: They live on the premises, I'll show you a picture of that in a minute, but they live on the premises. There's a little house just outside of their house, on their property, where the boys live.
Marilyn Barrett: So that they're always available to help with things like the generator. They turn on the generator.
Marilyn Barrett: Because their electricity in Zimbabwe usually only goes on at, I don't know, maybe about 9 o'clock at night until maybe 5 or 6 in the morning is when they have electricity.
Marilyn Barrett: And that's not… and they don't always have electricity, but when it goes on, that's when they have electricity.
Marilyn Barrett: They basically… which I'll show you in a minute, but they don't have… so they don't have hot water. That's, Emmy, their younger daughter. You can see she's up to date. She's got a cell phone in her hand, and she's scrolling YouTube videos, age-appropriate.
Marilyn Barrett: And on the right is another picture of his children, Emmy and Nellie.
Marilyn Barrett: There's a picture of our… one of our breakfasts and one of our dinners, so I'll describe it to you. The picture on top is a typical dinner,
Marilyn Barrett: There's pumpkin and greens, which is usually spinach, not collard greens. There was some kind of beef they served, and potatoes are very common.
Marilyn Barrett: And the bottom picture is a picture of… a close-up of breakfast, which is eggs, sausage, potatoes, and beans.
Marilyn Barrett: And there's also on the right a picture of her… her kitchen. She does all her… almost all her catering that she does that's private in this kitchen.
Marilyn Barrett: While we were there, she got a job for 300 people.
Marilyn Barrett: Hmm.
Marilyn Barrett: Okay, next.
Marilyn Barrett: And another picture of our dinner table, and that's a little… that's a picture of their living room and dining room, and the right side is their extra…
Marilyn Barrett: propane, I believe, stove, that front door there, they bring the stove in and out, so the boys bring it in. And there's almost always a pot cooking something on that stove.
Marilyn Barrett: And the aroma's wafting through the house.
Marilyn Barrett: Hopefully it's not too strong. So here's some extended pictures. Now we just took some extended pictures of the house.
Marilyn Barrett: So again, whoop, go back.
Marilyn Barrett: A living room… okay, yeah, go ahead. That's the living room.
Marilyn Barrett: With a couch. It's a pretty large
Marilyn Barrett: Couch with the coffee table, big square coffee table in the center, and that's about all the room there is.
Marilyn Barrett: Okay.
Marilyn Barrett: And they gave us, they generously gave us their bedroom.
Marilyn Barrett: And this is their bathroom, which is… they put in this bathroom
Marilyn Barrett: This was almost… this… we understand that they put this bathroom in…
Marilyn Barrett: Between the time we connected and… and…
Marilyn Barrett: made arrangements to… they wanted us to stay with them, so they put this… this was fairly new.
Marilyn Barrett: But…
Marilyn Barrett: The only thing that comes out of the shower head, came out of the shower head, was cold water.
Marilyn Barrett: So while we were there, I did wash my hair once in cold water, but I didn't take a shower, I just stuck my head over the tub, and, you know, adaptation, you do what you do.
Marilyn Barrett: And here's another picture of the kitchen.
Marilyn Barrett: And that's Emmy.
Marilyn Barrett: So this is a picture of their house on their property.
Marilyn Barrett: There's a door you see on the right, that's the door that they brought the… bring the stove in and out, but the… on the left, you'll see a half-wooden door that's sticking out. That's the door they enter their kitchen, come in and out of their kitchen. That's the door they use to come in and out of the house. Yes, thank you.
Marilyn Barrett: Now, this is on the back of their property.
Marilyn Barrett: It's a small house that eventually they want to use as an Airbnb at the back of their property. They're building a house, which I'll show you in a minute, in the front of their property.
Marilyn Barrett: It's a 13-room house, no basement, no second floor. It's just a one floor. 13 rooms. Right now, they have the… all the bricks going up for all… all the bricks are up for the rooms, and the roof.
Marilyn Barrett: And they build as they're able.
Marilyn Barrett: as they're, you know, as funds come in for them to add on to the house, they put a little more into it. On the right, you can see, this is the view outside of that wooden door.
Marilyn Barrett: On the left house, the wooden door, this is the view where they've got their…
Marilyn Barrett: That's their 5,000 gallon water tank that they fill up.
Marilyn Barrett: for $80 American money, that's the water that comes into their house. They mop constantly, the house is immaculate, or at least it was when we were there. And then there's… you can see they have a clothesline out there as well.
Marilyn Barrett: So the mops hang up to dry, the clothesline is out there.
Marilyn Barrett: And they wash their clothes, you know, they, their help, the people that help, the lady that cleans and the boys, they all do the washing outside in this little courtyard, in this little yard area.
Marilyn Barrett: Okay.
Marilyn Barrett: Here's a view of… on the left, you can sort of see
Marilyn Barrett: But it's clearer on the right. You can see on the right… the right side picture. Oh, yeah, that's it. Where Bob's got the pointer is the little… the little house where the boys stay. It's very small. And then to the left of it is a future chicken coop.
Marilyn Barrett: Go all the way over.
Marilyn Barrett: Yeah, yeah, the same picture. Yeah, that's the future chicken coop right now, it's just got things stored in it.
Marilyn Barrett: But this is the back of their property, and it's probably a third. So here's the front of the property, and it shows…
Marilyn Barrett: it shows, you know, it shows, you know, an idea of the structure of
Marilyn Barrett: The… where they're at in terms of building their home in the front.
Marilyn Barrett: That's the side, so it gives you an idea. She's got a garden on the side. Everyone has a garden everywhere.
Marilyn Barrett: everywhere we went in Africa, it's all… it's garden.
Marilyn Barrett: So that's… and there's a picture of the right side. This is the… this is where they walk up from the front.
Marilyn Barrett: They walk all the way up this little side to get to the home they live in in the back.
Marilyn Barrett: That's a view of their… a side view of their… and this is the front.
Marilyn Barrett: They have a big metal sliding door that encloses everything, and they keep it locked.
Marilyn Barrett: And they have two dogs that they keep inside the property.
Marilyn Barrett: Bob, you are free to add.
Marilyn Barrett: This is… this is one view outside… outside the front door. This is their… their neighbors to one side.
Marilyn Barrett: And the road. And the typical road in Zimbabwe. You need to go back one?
Marilyn Barrett: the typical road in Africa, they called it African Massage.
Marilyn Barrett: Okay. Okay, thank you.
Marilyn Barrett: And we… we… they asked us what we wanted to do when we came, and we said, we just want to live your life with you, and so they took us to, their older daughter, the two girls go to a private school, and their older daughter plays,
Marilyn Barrett: Field hockey, so this was her field hockey game.
Marilyn Barrett: And we went out to dinner that night, because the roads were so crowded.
Marilyn Barrett: To get back from the field hockey game. We waited, we stopped and had dinner.
Marilyn Barrett: And you can see the food at this restaurant is fairly Americanized. There was a pizza place, and I had a stir-fry, and…
Marilyn Barrett: Easton had a cheeseburger and fries, and someone else had a pizza. Someone else had macaroni and cheese.
Marilyn Barrett: This is a picture of Emmanuella's cantina, which,
Marilyn Barrett: She had a break from her. This is a picture of the people on the left, the people… her sister-in-law and the people that work in the cantina.
Marilyn Barrett: Behind the counter. In the middle is the… is… Yep.
Marilyn Barrett: And that's Easton on the left, and Emmanuella is next to Easton. And I believe it's the sister-in-law in the front.
Marilyn Barrett: And, I'm on the right. And that's a walkway
Marilyn Barrett: That runs along all those storefronts that you see. There's 5 or 6 of them. Each one is another cantina.
Marilyn Barrett: But theirs, their storefront is the first one. Not only did they have prime property in that location, but theirs is the one that's super immaculate.
Marilyn Barrett: So let me… So they do…
Sheva Carr: On this one for just a second.
Marilyn Barrett: Yep.
Sheva Carr: More the history and where it's at now.
Marilyn Barrett: Yes.
Sheva Carr: So, easton's brother passed away.
Sheva Carr: About a year and a half ago.
Sheva Carr: And…
Sheva Carr: One of the things that's so important and part of what we do as a community in Heart Ambassadors
Sheva Carr: Remember in the Bus 7 Myths About Your Mood course.
Sheva Carr: One of the tools for handling your own discomfort is widening the aperture Or the frame around it.
Sheva Carr: And…
Sheva Carr: In the Western worlds, people have been indoctrinated or enculturated to have very little tolerance for discomfort of any kind.
Sheva Carr: Because our lives have become so comfort-driven.
Sheva Carr: So…
Sheva Carr: Part of what serves us in service work is widening the aperture, which takes the significance out of discomfort. You even heard Marilyn make a big deal out of only cold water.
Sheva Carr: If you've lived anywhere else in the world, to have running water at all is, like, wow, big luxury.
Sheva Carr: So that's part of Maryland's widening aperture.
Sheva Carr: The idea that… hot running water is something that you're entitled to is really a purely Western concept.
Sheva Carr: So, similarly, In most places around the world, being a widow is… a kind of… Horrifying life sentence.
Lynne Jensen: Yeah.
Sheva Carr: There's a st… goes with it.
Sheva Carr: There is economic Isolation and despair that goes with it.
Sheva Carr: And Zimbabwe is no different, so Easton's sister-in-law and her children were going to be destitute on the streets. Now, Easton was gonna do what he could to help them.
Sheva Carr: But this became our first successful microloan.
Sheva Carr: And we…
Sheva Carr: lended Easton's sister-in-law, I don't even remember what it was now, I'd have to look it up. I've actually personally made this loan.
Sheva Carr: For about $800.
Sheva Carr: Out of that was born…
Sheva Carr: This cantina that you're looking at that got her off the streets and put her kids back in school.
Sheva Carr: That's the heart of what you're looking at right here.
Sheva Carr: Now, understand… She and Easton's wife, Emmanuella, these are highly trained women. One of them's a lawyer.
Sheva Carr: Doesn't matter.
Sheva Carr: The stigma and the destitution is the same, unless…
Sheva Carr: Something new comes in, like this.
Sheva Carr: And so…
Sheva Carr: I would say, just in the last 3 months, this has become profitable. One of the things that I did, because I personally, for all kinds of reasons.
Sheva Carr: for… Global public health, as well as for…
Sheva Carr: Personal health, as well as for,
Sheva Carr: climate issues, I'm a huge advocate for plant-based eating.
Sheva Carr: And because they were serving mostly meat at the cantina, I sat down and talked with the women and said.
Sheva Carr: What would you think if we had a lottery every day where everyone who buys a plant-based meal, the tenth person of the day that does, gets it free?
Sheva Carr: And so, every month, I send 30 meal tickets to them.
Sheva Carr: And that single thing has driven their business to be the most successful cantina in that row.
Sheva Carr: Because people love the lottery.
Sheva Carr: And they're all buying plant-based, because they want to win the free meal.
Sheva Carr: It's been a really cool example of how me acting in alignment with my core values
Sheva Carr: Wended up creating this ripple effect for the wholeness.
Sheva Carr: Unfortunately, they are remodeling this building now, and so they've lost the cantina, and they're currently without a place for their kitchen.
Sheva Carr: In the restaurant.
Sheva Carr: We've been actively looking for a new place for them to
Sheva Carr: Hold their restaurant, but rent in other places is more expensive, which could be fine.
Sheva Carr: But for the 3 months before the kitchen closed, they were profitable.
Sheva Carr: And already starting to pay back their loan.
Sheva Carr: And so we'll… we'll keep you updated. But I wanted… this is not just some random photo you're looking at. There's a real heart-based story behind this.
Sheva Carr: And I wanted you all to receive the heart in it.
Sheva Carr: Thank you, Marilyn.
Marilyn Barrett: I think I have another picture, yeah.
Marilyn Barrett: This was definitely a mead day.
Marilyn Barrett: This is a picture for Jane Marie of… of…
Marilyn Barrett: Behind the scenes in the kitchen of the…
Marilyn Barrett: Different containers that have the food that gets served onto the plate, and
Marilyn Barrett: In the next picture, which is meat and…
Marilyn Barrett: So in this picture on the left is a woman. They have a…
Marilyn Barrett: They have a bucket that's set up a little bit high that has water and a spout, and a woman is washing her hands, rinsing her hands into another, but the water's going into another bucket before she, gets her food.
Marilyn Barrett: which has… Saza, which is a…
Marilyn Barrett: That's a traditional local food, saza. That's made out of… in Zimbabwe, it's made out of cornmeal, but the cornmeal is so thick, if you can see it on the plate, it's so thick when you scoop it up and put it.
Marilyn Barrett: On the plate, you can eat it with a fork.
Marilyn Barrett: There's a pile of it on her plate with greens, potato, and chicken.
Marilyn Barrett: For a dollar. For a dollar, yeah, that plate is a dollar, and we treated that lady for lunch while we were there, and some other people, also.
Marilyn Barrett: Next, yeah.
Marilyn Barrett: So… That was… so that… that day, or the next day, we went to visit 9-11 direct.
Marilyn Barrett: Sheva, would you… would you like to describe what the…
Marilyn Barrett: The partnership is with 9-11 Direct.
Sheva Carr: Robert's saying something to me, hold on, what?
Sheva Carr: I don't know about the partnership between 11Direct. You'll have to tell us.
Marilyn Barrett: Oops, wait a minute.
Marilyn Barrett: So, this is a hospital that we sponsor as Heart Ambassadors, is that correct?
Sheva Carr: I've never, I've never actually heard the name of the hospital.
Marilyn Barrett: Oh, oh, okay, this is, memory and.
Sheva Carr: This is memory in Swanda.
Marilyn Barrett: Yes, and Tawanda's… yes, these are pictures of the… Of the maternity…
Marilyn Barrett: their facility yet, and it has… Go ahead.
Sheva Carr: No, you go ahead. They've never called it that name with us.
Marilyn Barrett: What do they call it?
Sheva Carr: Well, they don't, because it's actually…
Marilyn Barrett: Hold on, Bob.
Sheva Carr: Not a hospital, they're wanting to build a hospital.
Sheva Carr: We're, we're currently fundraising.
Sheva Carr: To build an actual hospital for them.
Sheva Carr: We have a $200,000 capital campaign that we're working on.
Sheva Carr: To build an actual hospital, but really what they are is a mobile unit.
Sheva Carr: With a…
Sheva Carr: couple of rooms that they use, so their maternal child health risk is huge. They want to build a full-fledged maternal child hospital.
Sheva Carr: But they also… so they operate more like, A mobile health clinic.
Sheva Carr: And for that reason, we've also sponsored them to go into rural areas.
Sheva Carr: areas where our schools and wells are, like Chikupu, and, do rural health interventions for people who can't travel far enough to reach.
Sheva Carr: Harare and receive medical care. So they don't… they never gave us a name for their quote-unquote service.
Sheva Carr: And…
Marilyn Barrett: Do you want to go back? Yeah.
Sheva Carr: But yeah, so it's a…
Sheva Carr: But they've been very impressive partners, so memory, and to one… Memory, I believe, is an MD herself who had, as long…
Sheva Carr: Lost.
Sheva Carr: Several children in childbirth.
Sheva Carr: And so she and her husband, Tawanda, have made it their mission to change the status of maternal child health in Zimbabwe.
Sheva Carr: And we're actively working with them to,
Sheva Carr: Fundraise. To see that dream realized.
Marilyn Barrett: I didn't know that about her.
Marilyn Barrett: I know she and her husband, Tawanda, spent
Marilyn Barrett: many years of their active working careers in Canada.
Lynne Jensen: I believe it was McMaster University in that area.
Marilyn Barrett: In Canada, and then they came back to Zimbabwe as a give-back.
Marilyn Barrett: I didn't know about the law… her own loss of children.
Sheva Carr: So that may be where they got their 911 branding.
Sheva Carr: For emergency services and mobile.
Marilyn Barrett: Go back, Bob.
Sheva Carr: We're gonna get a t-shirt that everybody wears that says, go back, Bob!
Marilyn Barrett: Go back, Jack. So this picture actually shows that they're in the hospital, they just opened… they're just opening up the pharmacy, and there's… there's actually now four parts to this… this section here, and it's… it's in a… It's fairly nice right there. This is the maternity, small maternity.
Marilyn Barrett: unit, where they have, one, what they call,
Marilyn Barrett: theater, which is where they do deliveries, and then a couple of different rooms for… for… where they have C-sections. They have one theater for C-sections, emergency C-sections, and another couple of rooms for actual deliveries.
Marilyn Barrett: So this actually has a pharmacy now. To the left of this building,
Marilyn Barrett: They have… the structure is in place, it's not open yet, but they do have an emergency room, a general emergency room, and to the right of this building is now a dental unit, which is… what she told me when I spoke with her last week, it's now open.
Marilyn Barrett: And, now you can change it. Thank you, Bob.
Marilyn Barrett: And this is a one-minute video, do we… we can… you can… if you want to see their one-minute video, she sent this to me not too long ago.
Marilyn Barrett: Do you have sound?
Lynne Jensen: Awesome.
Sheva Carr: Bob, did you screen share with Optimize for Video and Sound? You might have to pull out and screen share again.
Marilyn Barrett: Bob?
Marilyn Barrett: Did you optimize? Did you press the button for sound when you came in to screen share?
Marilyn Barrett: Because there's no… you're the only one with sound.
Marilyn Barrett: Can you come back? Can you go out and come back in and see if you can get the sound on?
Marilyn Barrett: I'll come in there.
Sheva Carr: Well, you all weren't counting on it, but having technical difficulties is the way of the world in Zimbabwe, so you're actually
Sheva Carr: full cultural immersion.
Marilyn Barrett: Bob?
Marilyn Barrett: All right, all right. Well, I have a lot of… alright.
Marilyn Barrett: Alright, so this is a t-shirt that, she made t-shirts. You've got the hats now. She made a couple t-shirts also.
Marilyn Barrett: Which had her logo at… So here's some pictures.
Sheva Carr: Wanda, that t-shirt is our tagline at the foundation, Together Choosing Love.
Sheva Carr: And, because your life matters.
Sheva Carr: So they've, I've actually never even had a conversation with Memory or Tawanda.
Sheva Carr: Our entire relationship has been through email and Easton's vetting.
Sheva Carr: But there's this intimacy!
Sheva Carr: That she had hats made of our foundation and t-shirts. Like, they've just connected so deeply with us in the heart and us with them.
Sheva Carr: A blueprint, a recognized heart's blueprint is the only way I can describe it.
Sheva Carr: So, actually, when we were traveling in Mexico, that's where we found our first potential funder for the hospital.
Marilyn Barrett: Oh.
Sheva Carr: Yeah.
Sheva Carr: We're in the process of, creating a pitch deck for them right now.
Marilyn Barrett: I don't know what a pitch deck is. Here's.
Sheva Carr: Pitch deck is how you get a couple hundred $1,000.
Marilyn Barrett: It's a… it's a PowerPoint presentation.
Sheva Carr: It tells the investor what you're going to do with it, and either how they'll recoup their money, or what the social profits will be for their investment.
Marilyn Barrett: That makes sense.
Marilyn Barrett: New word.
Marilyn Barrett: Simple.
Marilyn Barrett: You are?
Marilyn Barrett: Don't, don't have to worry about it.
Marilyn Barrett: Please don't worry about it.
Marilyn Barrett: Pace's concerned about timing.
Marilyn Barrett: We've been known to go off past 1 o'clock.
Marilyn Barrett: So this… this is, the two… two of the… the two maternity delivery rooms.
Marilyn Barrett: You see, there's… there's an… each one shows an isolate and a delivery table, Okay.
Marilyn Barrett: Next.
Marilyn Barrett: There's, this was upstairs, that's where they keep all their supplies, they're very neatly… organized.
Marilyn Barrett: And from upstairs, you can see a picture from the outside of the theater, where they have the emergency deliveries. The exit is also the main entrance.
Marilyn Barrett: This is also on the second floor. These are miscellaneous supplies on the left.
Marilyn Barrett: And on the right side, is…
Marilyn Barrett: Someone want to guess what that is?
Lynne Jensen: Yeah.
Lynne Jensen: A birthing chair.
Marilyn Barrett: No.
Marilyn Barrett: One more guess.
Marilyn Barrett: that…
Nienke van Bezooijen: Where they're way… where they're whey babies.
Marilyn Barrett: Yes, that's for weighing the babies.
Sheva Carr: Oh, cool.
Marilyn Barrett: Yeah.
Marilyn Barrett: And…
Marilyn Barrett: Just out that window is also, like a balcony, and they're planning to make an educational wing on the top there out of that.
Marilyn Barrett: This is, there it is, there's a better view on the left of the balcony where they're gonna enclose it for education.
Marilyn Barrett: And this is,
Marilyn Barrett: When you first walk in by their registration desk, just some of the signs they keep up, they have up.
Marilyn Barrett: different vaccines. This is a table of different vaccines needed.
Marilyn Barrett: Go ahead, Bob.
Marilyn Barrett: We're getting close to the dental section. Keep going.
Marilyn Barrett: We just walked to the right. This is the dental room.
Marilyn Barrett: All the equipment is in. This was before it was actually opened.
Marilyn Barrett: And this is the left side. You can see the pharmacy slightly to the right, and this is the left side where the…
Marilyn Barrett: The emergency section is.
Marilyn Barrett: The… this is what they have.
Marilyn Barrett: Presently what they have, equipment that they have, this is the right… the picture on the right are just…
Marilyn Barrett: Existing cabinets that were already there, where you'll be, you know, for check-in and storage. On the left, you'll start to see the equipment that they have in the emergency room acquired so far. Not so fast.
Marilyn Barrett: Not so fast. There we go.
Marilyn Barrett: Keep going. There's… here we go. We do have to show… I have to show you the… Keep going.
Marilyn Barrett: isolated.
Marilyn Barrett: For when there's young children or babies.
Marilyn Barrett: Now, that little gadget with the sink on the right
Marilyn Barrett: Keep going to the right. Next, next, next slide.
Marilyn Barrett: Okay, there's the front on the left.
Marilyn Barrett: And on the right, you can see…
Marilyn Barrett: That's the water tank that goes through that sink.
Marilyn Barrett: They actually have just a separate…
Marilyn Barrett: Water tank-type container. That's what feeds the sink.
Marilyn Barrett: Okay.
Marilyn Barrett: It's a bucket, yeah.
Marilyn Barrett: Okay, keep going.
Marilyn Barrett: And I've put this picture in because these babies were born emergency C-section.
Marilyn Barrett: This, this, just this past Friday.
Marilyn Barrett: And their shirts say, travel the world, but these twins were born September 5th by a mother from a rural area, unable to afford a C-section at a public facility.
Marilyn Barrett: She was past her due date.
Marilyn Barrett: Things were complicated, they called in two gynecologists, and in the end, there were two beautiful babies born.
Marilyn Barrett: Okay.
Sheva Carr: So, for those who don't know, it's probably worth just mentioning.
Sheva Carr: The United States is among the last in the world for maternal child health, And… mortality.
Sheva Carr: In the developed worlds.
Sheva Carr: We are bottom of the bottom of the bottom. We have the worst possible maternal child services.
Sheva Carr: In the developed world, and the most expensive.
Sheva Carr: The Scandinavian countries always come first in maternal child health, and the reason is they have a midwifery model of care.
Sheva Carr: And so, when we look at, quote-unquote, exporting maternal child health.
Sheva Carr: It's very important that to developing countries whose
Sheva Carr: Statistics are even worse than the US, which is hard to pull off, by the way.
Sheva Carr: But our medicalization of the natural process of childbirth has caused tremendous harm. We have, as physicians, completely betrayed our Hippocratic oath.
Sheva Carr: Where maternal child health is concerned.
Sheva Carr: There's all kinds of reasons for that, if anyone wants to learn about it.
Sheva Carr: that I worked in depth in my early career in this field as a labor and delivery doula.
Sheva Carr: Acupuncture du Leh.
Sheva Carr: We want to export models of care that work.
Sheva Carr: So, one of the things that I would require of Tawanda and Memory, should we grow this $200,000 facility, is that they have a midwifery model of care.
Sheva Carr: Because we don't want to export our mistakes.
Sheva Carr: Canada's not that far ahead of the U.S. We are a little… we, I say we because I'm from Canada, but Canada…
Sheva Carr: It's a little further ahead than the U.S. in maternal child health, but not much. Anywhere where there's a medicalized model of care for childbirth.
Sheva Carr: There is poor infant mother mortality rates.
Sheva Carr: And so… It is…
Sheva Carr: I don't… I haven't looked at the most recent data, it's been…
Sheva Carr: A while, but in developing nations, it is among the top 5 causes of death, top 3, often top 1 often.
Sheva Carr: For human beings is childbirth.
Sheva Carr: It's one of the most dangerous things a human will ever do, is to be born or to give birth.
Sheva Carr: And so, improving,
Sheva Carr: infant and mother mortality rates is one of the goals, one of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN, or one of the targets.
Sheva Carr: targets of Goal SDG3, Health and Wellness.
Sheva Carr: So that's just to put this in some context.
Sheva Carr: and awareness.
Marilyn Barrett: Hmm, thank you.
Marilyn Barrett: Next, thank you. Alright, so…
Marilyn Barrett: After we left touring the… that facility we went to… she also partners with the school.
Marilyn Barrett: It's… that's in Zimbabwe, and
Marilyn Barrett: So we went to see the school, meet the kids.
Marilyn Barrett: she keeps a family planning services table up there, and after that… and that's the van that they use. I believe that's the van that they use.
Marilyn Barrett: When they go into the rural villages to provide healthcare.
Marilyn Barrett: Which, yeah, for whatever reason, I don't quite… I don't quite understand it, and they only allow 5 people in the van.
Sheva Carr: Yeah, no, we rent.
Sheva Carr: We rent vans for them when they go rural.
Marilyn Barrett: Okay, alright. So, and the vans are only allowed to have 5 people in them.
Marilyn Barrett: So when we drove out, they drove in the van, and Easton and Emmanuela and I drove in his… in the car that they… that they rented.
Marilyn Barrett: Okay, Bob.
Marilyn Barrett: And so, in this picture, you can see memory on the left.
Marilyn Barrett: you see us, east… on the right, Easton, Emmanuela, myself, and Bob. On the left is,
Marilyn Barrett: That's memory.
Marilyn Barrett: And her husband's eating Tawanda and their son.
Marilyn Barrett: At the end, and he lives in Canada.
Marilyn Barrett: But he was visiting for the summer, he's, during… and he… you can see on the right,
Marilyn Barrett: He's getting his hands washed.
Marilyn Barrett: As they do their tradition.
Marilyn Barrett: That was nice of them. They treated us all to dinner.
Marilyn Barrett: Another view of this restaurant. Go ahead.
Marilyn Barrett: And this is a menu.
Marilyn Barrett: There's not a whole lot of time to read it, but it's pretty funny. The left side is all traditional goat stew, oxtail, there's a vegetarian on there. They all have sads, which is that thick maize porridge that is served
Marilyn Barrett: They make peanut butter rice there.
Marilyn Barrett: Okay, go ahead.
Marilyn Barrett: We are waiting at the corner of the street. It's 11 kilometers. Where we are right here, it's 11 kilometers down the bumpy road to get to the school, and so this is just some random pictures of the difference in driving laws on the right.
Marilyn Barrett: people are… Are in vehicles, in any way, shape, or form.
Marilyn Barrett: On the left, you see the lady that's customary that so many women are… are… carry on their heads so much.
Marilyn Barrett: They carry a lot of,
Marilyn Barrett: baskets full of food, or baskets of laundry, or you name it. They've got it on their… they carry… they learn to carry on their heads from when they're young. On the left side of this is a view of probably the bumpiest part of the road, the 11-kilometer road, into… into the school.
Marilyn Barrett: You know, some of the sites there's a…
Marilyn Barrett: Farber carrying some… something, and on the bottom shows the countryside with the big…
Marilyn Barrett: sort of mountain. It shows the countryside of the area there.
Marilyn Barrett: Bye.
Marilyn Barrett: There's no sound, but you can see the…
Marilyn Barrett: Just a little bit of the scenery we encountered as we were driving up the road.
Marilyn Barrett: And we are now at the school. Bob, I would really appreciate it if you could,
Marilyn Barrett: Log out and log back in.
Marilyn Barrett: And see if you can click that button.
Marilyn Barrett: That gets the sound on the video.
Marilyn Barrett: I'll come in there, I'll be right back.
Sheva Carr: Does anyone have any questions while Marilyn and Bob are sorting out their tech?
Sheva Carr: Is there anything you'd like to share?
Margaret Heath: Chevah?
Sheva Carr: Hey, Margaret.
Margaret Heath: I just wanted to ask how far this is from Harari?
Sheva Carr: We'll have to ask Marilyn that.
Sheva Carr: When you say this, witch this.
Margaret Heath: Well, where Easton lives, and then what we were just looking at.
Sheva Carr: lives in Harare.
Margaret Heath: He is in Harare, okay.
Sheva Carr: Yeah, and the, the 911 direct is in Harare.
Margaret Heath: Okay.
Sheva Carr: We bus them out to the rural areas.
Sheva Carr: Or, like, a weekend clinic.
Margaret Heath: So the school, then, is 11 miles from… Where they are.
Sheva Carr: Well, we have 3 different schools that we're working with.
Sheva Carr: Some of them are very far from Harari.
Sheva Carr: I'm not… there's Chikupu, there's Taxinga, which is quite far.
Sheva Carr: Tishinga is the village where UNICEF tried to dig wells six times. They're on a mountaintop.
Sheva Carr: So finally, with using HeartMath, the villagers figured out to dig at the bottom of the hill and pump the water up.
Sheva Carr: And then there's another, orphan school called…
Sheva Carr: Not at the top of my mind right now, so…
Sheva Carr: Quite far, some of them, it takes Easton a full day of travel to get to.
Margaret Heath: Okay.
Margaret Heath: Thank you.
Sheva Carr: Especially in the rainy season.
Sheva Carr: Can you drink the water?
Sheva Carr: I think Michael is asking, can you drink the water?
Sheva Carr: I don't drink any water when I'm traveling anywhere, even to New York.
Sheva Carr: City?
Sheva Carr: without filtering it through my GO water bottle, which you will all see me…
Marilyn Barrett: Rob, I can do it now.
Sheva Carr: Yeah, awesome.
Marilyn Barrett: do it.
Sheva Carr: Marilyn, I'm gonna mute you till you're sorted out.
Sheva Carr: You'll see me sporting proudly.
Sheva Carr: My GO water bottle, for those of you joining us in, Los Altos.
Sheva Carr: I don't go down the road without filtering the water. There's very, very few places in the world, if any.
Sheva Carr: Certainly not in the developed world, where the water is safe to drink right now.
Sheva Carr: Because of the microplastics in it. Marilyn, there's a question coming in if you guys,
Sheva Carr: Just, we're able to drink the water as is.
Marilyn Barrett: Never. I never even attempted to drink the water as is.
Marilyn Barrett: The infectious disease doctor told us before we left.
Marilyn Barrett: That even filtered… even water in any place we were drinking water, even if it was filtered through an organization of any kind, we should still drink it in our filtered bottles.
Sheva Carr: Yeah, exactly.
Sheva Carr: You need… and we can share with you guys, in fact, maybe we should do a bulk order for our ambassadors. The water bottles that Robert and I and Sandra used in Mexico City are the only ones that filter viruses as well as protozoa bacteria.
Sheva Carr: They have the tightest micron filter that can be made.
Sheva Carr: And so, you just have to do that pretty much everywhere you go in the world now.
Sheva Carr: So, another question came in from Margaret, how far each place… you did not visit Toshinga, correct? I think Toshinga was way too far for you to get to.
Marilyn Barrett: That's correct, it's hours away. Yeah, it takes him hours to get there.
Sheva Carr: So it's a little closer to Harare, so this is the first school where we… Dug the borehole.
Marilyn Barrett: For me to shut down?
Marilyn Barrett: Yeah, I've got the… I've definitely… you can all see the video?
Sheva Carr: And yes, in answer to Bella's question, we do sponsor children at all three schools in different ways.
Sheva Carr: But the simple answer is yes.
Sheva Carr: Most of you who sponsor children in Zimbabwe sponsor a child at Chicupo.
Sheva Carr: But not all.
Marilyn Barrett: Alright, let's see if this video worked. This was a cute thing.
Marilyn Barrett: Really sweet.
Marilyn Barrett: And, any other questions before we go on?
Marilyn Barrett: Alright, so when… when we pulled up,
Marilyn Barrett: After driving down the road 11 kilometers, this is what we… when we stepped out of the cars, this is what we heard.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: Can you hear it?
Marilyn Barrett: That's just a little taste of what we heard.
Marilyn Barrett: It was overwhelming. It was so beautiful.
Marilyn Barrett: I was so touched.
Marilyn Barrett: I was definitely in tears.
Sheva Carr: Yeah, I mean, the level of gratitude I receive weekly… Sometimes.
Sheva Carr: from the emails from the teachers, from Tawanda and memory.
Sheva Carr: For the water we've provided, for the support we provide the children, anytime they have a need.
Sheva Carr: I receive a full page of gratitude before the ask in the one sentence at the end.
Sheva Carr: I'll get this massive gratitude letter for the ways that all the work all of you and all of us have done there.
Sheva Carr: It's helping, and then the last sentence will be, oh, by the way, we have no water pressure left in the well, could we get a booster pump for $1,000?
Sheva Carr: I have to read their letters all the way to the end to find out why they're writing, because there's so much gratitude.
Marilyn Barrett: So, I do want to preface by saying this experience was…
Marilyn Barrett: pretty overwhelming for me. I… I know I was… I thought we were going…
Marilyn Barrett: To work with some kids and teach them some quick coherence, and they had a whole program prepared.
Marilyn Barrett: with gratitude, a poem, so I have a lot of that to show you.
Marilyn Barrett: I… I… I kept thinking, I, I was thinking, I kept thinking to myself.
Marilyn Barrett: I'm a representative, but I wasn't a decision maker, you know? Why did… why… why me?
Marilyn Barrett: It was really beautiful, and I was so grateful, and I felt so much love.
Marilyn Barrett: At the same time, let's see, there's a song…
Marilyn Barrett: This is another picture of the kids, they're singing their national anthem.
Marilyn Barrett: I have a lot of little recordings. I don't have to play them all, so please stop me if I should move on.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: Let's see, bye!
Marilyn Barrett: On the left side of the video, for a moment, you saw all the women that came in from the village for medical treatment.
Marilyn Barrett: But this is a… There were probably…
Marilyn Barrett: 200-plus children, and they had them all arranged, Jean Marie. They had them completely arranged by height, so that the younger children were in the front.
Marilyn Barrett: And then, you know, the next row would be the next grade level. So they were sort of by grade level, but
Marilyn Barrett: So you could see all the children, because the tallest ones were in the back.
Marilyn Barrett: They had a whole program, for us.
Marilyn Barrett: And it was funny, Bob, they thought Bob was the guest… Bob was the… became the best, the guest of honor. They asked him to say something.
Marilyn Barrett: he passed on that, and Easton told me I could get… I should get a… he gave me warning that I should be prepared to say something.
Marilyn Barrett: Which was really heartwarming for me, almost overwhelming. So, here's a little introduction. This is a moment of introducing us to
Marilyn Barrett: the staff.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: Dun, dun.
Marilyn Barrett: Comes from an iPhone.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: You can be fried.
Lynne Jensen: Right now.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: We have come with our friends and our forehead.
Marilyn Barrett: Okay.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: With me, is Bob Arees.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: I'm also from Fera Foundation in the HeartMath, soy as, Marilyn Barley.
Marilyn Barrett: Okay, Bob's suggesting I play the slideshow, but then it's gonna go past things real quick. No, it's not. Oh. You still have to control. Oh, okay. Excuse me, one minute.
Marilyn Barrett: Okay, let's try this so we can hear better.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: I'm done.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: the senior teacher… For primary school, this is Mr. Morty.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: Senior Teacher, Kubo Primary School, and this is Mr. Jikawa.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: Pardon, Pardon. Mr. Chikawa Pardon is the counselor of World War III.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: In Mariahua.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: No frequency change.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: Indeed.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: Mystified.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: This is the commit of the Coco Crime School.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: Thank you very much, ma'am, and everyone else who is here. My name is Istan Moko. I'm the Regional Director for Fera Foundation. We have come, we are with, our friends and our co-workers.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: the 911 hospital. With me here is, Bob Barrett.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: Also from Fera Foundation in the HeartMath, soy is, Marilyn Barrett.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: from the U.S, so is the heart.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: Matt.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: There is Memory, she's the director for 911 Hospital. And, I have, Emanuela Fera Foundation as well. I'll ask Memory to go ahead and introduce her team.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: Thank you very much.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: Opportunity, and thank you for welcoming us.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: With me, I have our sister in charge.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: Sorry, this one is a man named Puntu, a midwife, and a nurse as well, for my mom.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: One day late, our sister in charge is the line number.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: 911 again. That one is our young, nurse 8. And, Mr. Puranai is from our school. We have also a school that is called Starcrest.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: So, she is also one of our administrators.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: from our school, and we are friends of Fierra Foundation. That's why we are tagging along with them. Thank you.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: Focused in sourcing funds and resources from abroad to make this project area easy.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: Your selflessness and the education to giving back to the community are truly inspiring, and we are proud to have you as the partners in our mission to provide quality education to our community.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: Once again, we express our heartfelt gratitude for your kindness in January 6th.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: Generosity. We hope that your visit today will give you
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: a sense of fulfillment and joy. Thank you for being part of this special moment. We are welcome you to Chukupo Prima.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: Thank you.
Lynne Jensen: Premium.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: We thank you so much. May God continue to shower you with more blessings. Right? Thank you.
Marilyn Barrett: These are… these are the introduction videos.
Marilyn Barrett: street that we did.
Sheva Carr: I think, Marilyn, the sound quality of the videos is a little hard.
Sheva Carr: If you give me links to them, we can send them out, but in the time we have left, probably just hearing your
Sheva Carr: your experience with it.
Marilyn Barrett: Alright, thanks.
Marilyn Barrett: Yeah, well, I can go past the videos and just… I'd like… wanted to show just a couple pictures of… a couple more pictures of the…
Marilyn Barrett: The…
Marilyn Barrett: the actual premises. This is an actual… I… I put this on, like, they're… they did a dance for us, and they had that basket on their heads, and…
Marilyn Barrett: Yes, I can send you all those links.
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: Andrew.
Marilyn Barrett: You get a quick view of…
Audio shared by Marilyn Barrett: Standing in front of all those kids teaching.
Marilyn Barrett: There we go.
Marilyn Barrett: She put those banners up.
Marilyn Barrett: This is a picture of the… of all the people that came waiting for medical attention.
Marilyn Barrett: And that was…
Sheva Carr: For just a second, Marilyn, so we can see the banners.
Marilyn Barrett: Yeah, of course.
Sheva Carr: So they, they created these banners on their own from our website.
Sheva Carr: Pretty amazing.
Marilyn Barrett: Yeah, they did.
Sheva Carr: Alright, thank you.
Marilyn Barrett: They're hand washing, and…
Marilyn Barrett: they, they… they, they provided lunch for everybody. I thought it was significant to say that
Marilyn Barrett: Easton kept telling me that they're… they're not used to people participating in their lunch like there's, and they were surprised that we agreed to have lunch with them.
Marilyn Barrett: I… I said, okay, I… I…
Marilyn Barrett: I can hear that there's people that would hesitate to have lunch there, but…
Marilyn Barrett: we ate in this classroom, and I was grateful to participate, and they were so kind and cur… they were just so kind about the whole thing, they were so kind.
Marilyn Barrett: So here is the extension of the well, and that picture on the right has a couple of trucks from a local church, because one of the
Marilyn Barrett: One of the, One of the areas where you fill up
Marilyn Barrett: that goes out toward the street for the local… the local community, so that was a picture of them coming. They've got trucks full of water containers to fill up their water. Here is the borehole, and it is… it's run. There's the solar panels. On the right, you see the solar panels connected.
Marilyn Barrett: To the water container at the top of the…
Marilyn Barrett: Of the holder for the water container.
Marilyn Barrett: On the left, you can see that as a result of having
Marilyn Barrett: The borehole build, they actually were able to build a bathroom for the staff.
Marilyn Barrett: On the right side, Is, where the rest of the students,
Marilyn Barrett: I didn't actually go over there and go inside, but there's a lot of bathrooms for the students, you can see on the right.
Marilyn Barrett: And this is another something that they built. It says, drugs ruin lives, and it's, it's a picture of the teacher and the directors, and the, water that's coming out of this structure that they built with spouts for… to, fill water bottles and such.
Marilyn Barrett: The right side is actually where some of the staff sleep when they don't go home on the weekends. Many of them go home on the weekends. The left side will be a store of some kind, and that's the structure that started
Marilyn Barrett: A brick structure that started for them to have some sort of store.
Sheva Carr: Well, part of that is because with water.
Sheva Carr: For a while, we've been working on a sustainable garden that regenerates the soil in Shikupu, and they can sell the produce.
Marilyn Barrett: Oh, okay.
Sheva Carr: Okay.
Sheva Carr: You know, cook some of it and have a restaurant, but… So,
Sheva Carr: Water brings every aspect of life.
Sheva Carr: And actually, this whole project is part of what caught the eye of the Consul General of Mexico.
Sheva Carr: And now inviting us back to Mexico in the area of Chiapas, because they want to duplicate this kind of
Sheva Carr: effort in Chiapas.
Marilyn Barrett: Chapuco and Chiapas.
Sheva Carr: Maybe they'll become sister cities. Well, Chiapas is a state, but… Yes.
Marilyn Barrett: So this is the early childhood development.
Marilyn Barrett: building.
Marilyn Barrett: This is what… this is their,
Marilyn Barrett: playground equipment. You can see swings on the left, and on the right, you can actually see a teeter-totter that they did, the makeshift teeter-totter. Can everybody see that on the right?
Marilyn Barrett: What they told me was the most important thing they need there right now were toys.
Marilyn Barrett: For the early childhood block, because the children need to learn through play.
Marilyn Barrett: This is, on the left side, is a picture
Marilyn Barrett: Of the early childhood, room inside the early childhood building.
Marilyn Barrett: They tried to make it colorful. They've got,
Marilyn Barrett: They tried very hard to make it colorful and fun in their…
Lynne Jensen: On the right side, you can see their bathroom looks like it might need an update.
Marilyn Barrett: Didn't go inside.
Sheva Carr: By the way, children in the developed world need this too.
Sheva Carr: I don't know if any of you have read or are reading the book.
Sheva Carr: The anxious generation.
Sheva Carr: But that cell phone that you saw Easton's child on?
Sheva Carr: That has rewired the human brain.
Sheva Carr: And children are not going through the proper phases of early childhood development any longer because they're on phones.
Sheva Carr: And so, there is a whole movement and campaign to get toys and jungle gyms back
Sheva Carr: In the early childhood experience.
Sheva Carr: So, another place where our advancements in technology have taken us backward rather than forward.
Marilyn Barrett: Yeah, thank you for that.
Marilyn Barrett: This is a list I'll send you. She, at the time, these were… this was at the top, a list of anticipated donations.
Marilyn Barrett: Which, I will send you this list.
Marilyn Barrett: This is the soccer field, and the kids are playing soccer.
Marilyn Barrett: And it was, by the way, it was a pretty warm day. They're dressed fairly…
Marilyn Barrett: They have long pants and coats on.
Marilyn Barrett: So, just picture taking time. This is some of us, and, you know, Easton, and myself, and Emmanuella, and the director, and some of the
Marilyn Barrett: Local people who came in for healthcare.
Marilyn Barrett: And then we left… so that… this is just about the end. We left Chipuco, and these are just, pictures, along the road as we're leaving.
Marilyn Barrett: The one on the left, you can see they hang out all their laundry.
Marilyn Barrett: Just a picture of the countryside and a home.
Marilyn Barrett: More just pictures of countryside and home.
Marilyn Barrett: And someone's selling bananas.
Marilyn Barrett: This is a picture of… this is quick. This is… we went to see Easton's parents and their home.
Marilyn Barrett: And he has a large, what I call, homestead. He's got his home, he's got a couple other homes in a separate building as well. His home, two homes that he runs, a large garden, a chicken coop.
Marilyn Barrett: And then a separate building, which is behind the people
Marilyn Barrett: Those of us on the right side, is… there's the building behind them.
Marilyn Barrett: I'm gonna show you. So, let's see, his father is on the right, his mother's in the middle, I believe that's his nephew.
Marilyn Barrett: On the left.
Marilyn Barrett: That's the chicken coop, and he has his own borehole, which he shares with the community.
Marilyn Barrett: It's his garden.
Marilyn Barrett: A little cute little guy, and all the laundry hanging out.
Marilyn Barrett: So, on the right are the buildings that are rented out. On the left, I'm going to show you what's on the left. There's an outhouse.
Marilyn Barrett: This is his niece's school. On the left is the schoolroom that's present, the present schoolroom, and then the divider in the middle, and then the right side is her dream of a larger… it's actually a much larger room that she would like to finish. She's teaching school with a baby on her back.
Marilyn Barrett: And we closed the…
Marilyn Barrett: the Zimbabwe with… I've mailed those letters on June 20th, and they arrived on August 4th.
Marilyn Barrett: Are there any questions before I stop the screen share?
Marilyn Barrett: The experience was pretty moving for me, and… I'm still… Processing and up-leveling from it.
Marilyn Barrett: We're good.
jeannemarie: Marilyn, was your primary source of culture shock that everybody did so much with so little?
Marilyn Barrett: I think it was more, you know, recently I more came in touch with
Marilyn Barrett: more of the guilt that I felt.
Marilyn Barrett: Because we have so much.
Marilyn Barrett: Though I'm aware of the resilience that they have.
Marilyn Barrett: But I think it was a lot of some of the guilt that I felt, because we have so much.
jeannemarie: Yeah.
jeannemarie: I experienced that when I went to South Africa. I came home, and I was just shocked as hell. When I went into a store, I'm like, whoa, why are there so many of… so many of everything?
Marilyn Barrett: Right.
Marilyn Barrett: Thank you for the question.
Marilyn Barrett: after we left Zimbabwe, we… we did a… we did traditional,
Marilyn Barrett: a safari, we went to Zambia, and we went… did some safaris, and…
Marilyn Barrett: That's… that's for another time, but…
Marilyn Barrett: I think it's a little after 1, so…
Sheva Carr: Yeah, it could be neat, Marilyn, to have you maybe join the Conscious Animal Lovers movement.
Sheva Carr: calls that are now happening weekly on Wednesday, for those who don't know. It's a new service of Heart Ambassadors.
Sheva Carr: Every Wednesday morning at 11 a.m. Pacific time, the Conscious Animal Lovers Movement gathers to send love to animals.
Marilyn Barrett: Hmm.
Sheva Carr: Arrange to have you share your Safari as in one of those calls.
Marilyn Barrett: Yeah, it definitely shows the… how the animals have been habituated.
Marilyn Barrett: Buy all the vehicles.
Marilyn Barrett: Or I would say invaded by the vehicles.
Marilyn Barrett: Yeah.
Sheva Carr: Though we closed with a heart lock-in.
Marilyn Barrett: I would love that.
Sheva Carr: So that we can send love to all those lives we got to witness and be a part of, and…
Sheva Carr: They'd open their homes, their hearts, their health…
Sheva Carr: And their need for help to us?
Sheva Carr: We just… Take a moment to focus attention.
Sheva Carr: attention… In the area around… The chest area.
Sheva Carr: Imagine the breath.
Sheva Carr: It's flowing in through the heart and out through the heart.
Sheva Carr: Feeling a little slower, a little deeper than usual.
Sheva Carr: If it's helpful, counting as you breathe in.
Sheva Carr: Counting as you breathe out.
Sheva Carr: And where we began, but perhaps richer for the trip.
Sheva Carr: In love and connection.
Sheva Carr: Then we'll rest, radiating that.
Sheva Carr: to Maryland, and Bob and Zimbabwe, and…
Sheva Carr: Let that ripple out to the whole world.
Sheva Carr: Much love, everyone. Thank you so much. Thank you, Marilyn. Thank you all.
Melinda Dewey: Thank you so much, Marilyn.
Melinda Dewey: Thank you. Thank you.
Jane Washburn: Marilyn and Bob.