You Matter Nashville

The New Beginnings Center with Tash Weddle

Jason and Mindy Hoover Episode 28

In this episode of You Matter Nashville, we sat down with the incredible Tash Weddle, founder of The New Beginnings Center in Nashville. Tash is a master strength coach who turned her experience in collegiate athletics into a mission to empower women—particularly low-income women—through fitness, nutrition, and mindset training. She shared how her background and personal setbacks fueled her desire to create a space where women can grow stronger from the inside out, no matter their income level.

Tash also introduced us to her brilliant business model: a for-profit women's gym (TNB Fitness) that helps fund her nonprofit. It's a powerful example of what’s possible when business meets heart. We talked through her vision, challenges in today’s economy, and how anyone can get involved to support this ripple-effect mission.

Key Takeaways

  • Fitness with Purpose: The New Beginnings Center empowers underserved women through strength training, nutrition coaching, and mindset work.
  • Dual Business Model: TNB Fitness (for-profit) supports the nonprofit side, offering affordable training to those in need.
  • Habit-Based Coaching: Nutrition and fitness success is achieved through small, sustainable habit changes, not drastic overhauls.
  • Mindset Matters: Coaching includes self-awareness, vision boards, and breaking generational habits—changing lives from the inside out.
  • Affordability with Dignity: Scholarships and sliding scale fees ensure every woman has access, without cost being a barrier.
  • Ripple Effect Impact: Stronger women mean stronger families and communities. Tash’s work changes futures, not just bodies.
  • Events to Support: Annual fundraisers like the Spirit of Wellness Luncheon and Bourbon & Bubbles raise funds and awareness.


The New Beginnings Center
https://www.thenewbeginningscenter.org

You Matter Nashville YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@YouMatterNashville

The Hoover Team
https://www.thehooverteam.com/

Jason and Mindy Hoover (00:00.098)

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Jason and Mindy Hoover (00:52.194)

Welcome to You Matter Nashville. I'm Jason Hoover along with my beautiful wife, Mindy. Today we are sitting down with Tash Weddell. She was the powerhouse behind the New Beginnings Center right here in Nashville. Tash is actually a master strength coach who has served with big name universities like Tennessee, Purdue, and Vanderbilt. Her mission is to empower low income women through holistic fitness, nutrition, and mindset coaching. Since

 

In New Beginnings has supported over 4,500 women, giving them more than strength, but also confidence, community, and life transformation. Tash, welcome to the show.

 

Thank you for having me.

 

Tash, most people recognize you for your coaching career. What was the spark that led you to start a nonprofit focused on unserved women?

 

Well, it's an interesting story in that all along my college coaching career, I would coach general population clients. I had spent 17 years in the collegiate coaching realm. And honestly, it's a very male dominated field. And as a woman, I just didn't feel like I was going to progress any further and nor was I going to retire in that job either. So one of my general population clients that I trained was Chris McCarthy, and she was the Habitat for Humanity CEO.

 

Tash Weddle (02:16.204)

And she was the one who suggested that I take my skills and help those who would never have had the opportunity to have that experience because she herself had a great transformation and realized how life changing that could be. And I said, you know, that sounds like a phenomenal idea. Let's do it.

 

I love it. know, and it is such an expensive thing. I mean, if you're having a hard enough time paying your bills and getting everything done every month to fit that extra expense, I mean, it might as well be a million dollars a month, you know, I it's just, it's just not feasible. And for women, it's pretty daunting unless you grew up in sports and you were put in that gym by a coach when you were younger and growing up, just the thought of going to a gym and knowing how to use all the equipment and doing it correctly is so

 

daunting. So I mean, I applaud you for that. how, like Jason was saying, how did you get started in? And how did you know what areas you were wanting to reach these women in like areas?

 

Yeah, so we actually started a pilot group while I was still at Vanderbilt and we used, we went to Habitat Owners because there was like ideal clients, right? Willing to put in sweat equity to own a home and take that next step. And so they did great. We had a phenomenal group of four. Then we did another group out of St. Luke's Community House of five. And so that's, and so then word started just getting out. And so now today, you know,

 

We're serving hundreds of women a year and it's a lot of physicians, word of mouth, and then other nonprofits who serve that same population.

 

Jason and Mindy Hoover (03:54.264)

So when you first started, and we all go through building businesses, like you build businesses, Mindy and I, and people that are listening, there's always that point of you're trying to figure out how do I actually get this into play? You got the idea, you got the concept, and you know you've got that mission that you want to accomplish. What was that point where you're

 

You're like, yes, this is, this is how we need to structure the new beginning center. These are the people that we want to go after and that we can help.

 

You mean the clientele.

 

I mean, to me, was just women who had the willingness that would show up and were willing to get out of their comfort zone, too, because it's a very scary thing. So, yeah, it was, mean, I had worked with college athletes and on the wealthier side of my general population clients for a long time.

 

Wow.

 

Tash Weddle (05:04.67)

And where I come from, in a very small town in rural Indiana, well, those are the people I'm helping, are the people that are working the paycheck to paycheck jobs and who are taking care of everybody else but themselves.

 

So did you, in your career, did you face some obstacles like injuries or reoccurring problems like that?

 

with the clients.

 

No, you yourself.

 

absolutely. I made the Indiana Kentucky All-Star team and that was like a dream of mine since sixth grade. But then I tore my ACL two weeks before that game. No. And chose to play in it anyway. And then came out with another injury and then had reconstruction surgery before I went to NC State to play basketball. And so I registered in my first year and then I came back and had another knee injury and then six weeks later another knee injury. so, yeah.

 

Tash Weddle (06:03.648)

Lots of knee injuries, seven surgeries all through college. And that's really why I became a strength coach is I spent a lot of time in the weight room on my own, just trying to find that advantage of how can I get back? How can I gain that speed and strength back to get back to where I want to be?

 

All right. So mean, was a lot of that, you know, just growing up and doing so many sports, was it just doing too much or was, do you think it was a lack of strength training as you were growing?

 

That's a great question. I mean, I actually, I specialize at an early age in basketball. So it could have been that I didn't play enough different sports, right? But, I also back in the nineties, late eighties, nineties, the strength coaches that they had, if we had one at all at the high school level probably wasn't.

 

what they are now. know they were. So from a balanced training standpoint, that wasn't there. But I think it's just, you know, a lot of women in those, especially still a lot of women blow their knees out, you know. Oh, they look.

 

We it is. My son has a friend, uh, it goes to youth group with him. She's had three surgeries and they're, they just finished 10th grade and a soccer, it's just repetitive soccer playing so much soccer. And as those girls, they're like beasts out there, but man, they're literally going until they can anymore. You know, I, um, I didn't, I didn't play a collegiate sport. You know, I'd hope to, but I wasn't as good as, uh, the P D one D two.

 

Jason and Mindy Hoover (07:32.342)

I quickly realized that was not my career path, but, you know, I love, I love college sports. It's actually my favorite. don't, I don't follow pro too much on anything. And, know, you, you see the injuries that happen and, know, I'm a baseball guy, but you see different injuries that happen, especially, you know, if you're dealing with pitchers, it's usually, you know, they're having Tommy John or, you know, something along that lines,

 

You your outfielders are usually like hamstrings. So, all of that, you, you worked on yourself and you were at, you, it, it helped you understand what causes it and how to protect yourself from being injured. And you've been taking that and helping others in the new beginning center. Is that correct? Yeah.

 

and in our social enterprise, TMB Fitness.

 

Okay, yes. you know, that's perfect. Let's share with the audience the two different ones and what, kind of give them a rundown.

 

Okay, so there are two separate businesses. They both happen out of the same facility. In the morning hours, it's TNB Fitness, which is a for-profit and it's market rate personal training. So women who can afford to pay to train and they're both women's only, but women who can afford training come and train and 25 % of what they pay each month goes to help women in the nonprofit side, which those classes happen basically from noon through the late afternoon. And so,

 

Tash Weddle (09:09.698)

Yeah, we have about 90 clients right now on TMB Fitness, maybe room for 10 more. So we're getting there. And so yeah, it's just nothing else like either one of these businesses. There are no other women's gyms in Nashville. And when I say we're a gym, we're a real gym. We're not just an empty space that's designated for the women in a bigger, big box gym. And yeah.

 

We're really training on both sides. are progressing safely. Everybody walks in with some kind of pre-existing aches or pain or injury, and we're working around that for everybody to find a way for them to be successful.

 

That's awesome. women are just, we're built different, the way our muscles are built different. And so it's amazing that you can really specialize in that and how your for-profit can then help take care of the nonprofit side and you can kind of be self-sufficient that way. So that's incredible. So people know that if you're going for personal training, you're also helping women in need that would literally never have that opportunity without their dollars going into the program. So I just wanted to reiterate that.

 

Women are looking for an amazing opportunity with women who are specializing in women. You guys are where they need to be going to.

 

Yeah, it's amazing that, you know, they can get the experience. mean, cause you've got a, a wealth of experience as we kind of touched on just a very little bit, but, with them, I mean, you know, it makes you feel better that if I'm, I'm going to a place, a gym or workout and you're literally taking a quarter of that and helping the others in that nonprofit, I think it's a brilliant idea. It's like, makes you start wondering like,

 

Jason and Mindy Hoover (10:58.286)

What other businesses could be like that? Right. They could be doing the same thing. Right. I mean, use the same space so you're not having overhead on a whole different. Right. You have a dual thing that's going on. And I think I've shared with you that, uh, I grew up as a theater kid, music kid, and never walked into a gym. did grow up on a farm. So, uh, I climbed trees, I mountain biked, I did all those things. I was very fit as a kid, but when I moved to the city, I really didn't have those opportunities just to naturally.

 

grow strong and everything and I didn't know how to do it. And so it wasn't until I actually got hurt, broke my shoulder that I was forced to go into physical therapy and I was forced to go into strength training to get my body back. And it was very daunting. It was scary. The first time I went to a gym, it was mostly men and you and you feel like everybody's staring at you, but they're not, but you feel that way. But just having someone there to guide, I was very fortunate to have somebody to guide me through and

 

be able to add. was a woman that was on staff that really walked me through everything. And that was so important because if I had to go in there and try to figure it out by those pictures, dear Lord, it wouldn't have happened. That would have hurt myself. it's- of those things you don't know how to get on it. Right. I to see how they do it. then I'm like, I'll just mimic that. So you do nutrition.

 

Good luck.

 

Tash Weddle (12:20.579)

Right.

 

Jason and Mindy Hoover (12:26.186)

as well. And I know you say you help them from the inside out. So could you elaborate a little bit on the nutrition piece of it?

 

Yes, so we use a habit based model. So we're building on one habit and then next and then the next because if you give somebody one habit to work on, they're 80 % likely to be successful. But as soon as you add a second thing or habit to work on, their success rate will drop to 20%. So it does require patience. And if you think about people who they just try to do an overhaul of what they're eating or their diet and they try to make too much change too fast, which is usually why

 

by the time the Super Bowl rolls around, everybody has fallen off of their New Year's resolutions. And it just requires a little more patience. so we roll out a habit for each week for the first six weeks, and then we go back through and recycle again. And we go a little deeper into each habit. And we're helping women, what are your obstacles? Let's be solution finders. We don't expect perfection either.

 

We just want to see progress. And then we look at what are the behaviors around that habit to make sure that you can be successful because oftentimes nutrition coaching for most people comes down to systems and structures. If they have the systems and structures in place, then they will be able to have the food they need and when they need it, right? And be able to make the right choice.

 

Now, do you guys work in conjunction with like food banks or any place to help them get some of these more healthy options? Because I know once you go into health food, it gets a lot more expensive than sure. Grabbing a pack of hot dogs.

 

Tash Weddle (14:09.806)

Yeah, we're not current. We've worked with green, not green door, what is it? I'm not going to be able think about it.

 

National Food Project. So we worked with National Food Project in the past a little bit, but we're currently not. And we've also had a CSA come to our location. But I will say that, well, right now we're actually working with women from the store. If you're familiar with that nonprofit, it's on 12 South. And it is a grocery store that is free for the entire year for those who need to come every other week. So those women are coming over to us. And so I have to be mindful when I'm talking about food.

 

and what women have accessible to them and can afford. you can, yes, is expensive to eat healthy, but it's also expensive to eat unhealthy. And that could be an immediate today expense or it could be the price you pay for the future, right? So we just try to find ways to, know, beans and rice are pretty inexpensive and that's a complete routine. And so there are ways to do it. And so it's really too about.

 

How much can we displace of the fast food, convenience food with the real food, single ingredient foods? And so again, that comes down to systems is you're gonna have to cook a little bit for yourself if you're gonna eat healthy.

 

So I think fast food has really harmed us, you know, as a nation more than we truly can understand or maybe more than what, you know, we're being told because eating healthy, fresh, fresh foods, it does affect your life. And it's like you're saying it would cost you more in the long run in your health and in expenses as far as

 

Jason and Mindy Hoover (16:01.614)

you know, doctors, what have you, then, you know, it would initially, but at the same time, you know, there's the people, you know, that you're serving, they can't afford it. So, you know, a double edged sword. It is. Yeah, it really is. You know, my, mom's an OT and she had spoke to doctors. She mainly works with the older population and

 

I know that surgeons have always told her that they would rather work on someone who was 90 years old than someone who was in their 40s because the type of food our generation has put in their bodies versus what a farmer who was 90 put in there. So like it's just not even the same when they go in. And that is 100 % because of putting bad food into our bodies, convenience, convenient food into our bodies for years. now you also do

 

Sure.

 

Jason and Mindy Hoover (16:56.044)

with the mindset coaching, which I think is that's the habits, right? Or is that part of it? There's some correct habits. There are.

 

are some other things we talk about and just like understanding like self-sabotage and we all set up limits for ourselves and then we also do vision boards and we talk about how we actually have way more control over our destiny than we realize but we sometimes give that power away by just labeling ourselves or self-doubt and things like that and just trying to you know remove those barriers that we set for ourselves.

 

Right, you know, there's also a lot of just generational strongholds that are, you know, that are playing out as well. So it's, how my mom did it. It's how my grandma did it. It's how we prepared food and it's just the normal. And so you really don't understand. I mean, especially if there is a lot of obesity, just not connecting the two or knowing how to get out of it. Like you said, I think goal setting is probably one of the most important things. I love vision boards. Jason knows I love a good vision board.

 

But just setting your sights on what you could be and visually seeing that is beautiful. I love that. And not messing up a salad with bacon grease. grease. Bacon grease salad. That sounds amazing, but no.

 

So, you know back to the being able to to eat healthy, you know, they are at the mercy of you know of the food banks and So I know there's you know, that's one thing that we've talked about or talked with some of the people that do Are that help with the second harvest outreach? Yeah, that they are trying to get more fresh food fresh vegetables They've you know, they work really hard to get a few

 

Jason and Mindy Hoover (18:48.204)

you with every, I guess we say whenever they are giving away their food. yeah. And it's definitely not easy. now one thing that you have is a scholarship, correct? Yes. you share a little bit about that? Well,

 

So we go up to 100 % of HUD housing limits. So for a woman who is single, if she makes less than $56,000 a year, she doesn't pay anything to come here. Because if you think about what we're offering, it's not low on the hierarchy of needs. It's not food, shelter, right? We're really targeting that woman who probably has a job or maybe she's retired, but has...

 

Wow. Okay.

 

Tash Weddle (19:35.382)

has contributed to society and just doesn't make a ton of money, which you think 56,000, that sounds like a lot, but in Nashville, you know, what is it you to make these days just to live? There's not going to be any money left over for her to go do something like what we're providing. And then it goes up for each member of the household. But then if someone is slightly over that, then we have a sliding scale because we just don't want cost to be a barrier ever.

 

And so, you know, we see it, if a woman is recently getting a divorce, now her income is different, right? She needs it more than ever, right? So we're not going to want cost to be the barrier.

 

I love it. And I'm a big person on sliding scales and I hate the all or nothing because the people in between really get lost. I really do love that.

 

Yes.

 

So one thing I noticed is that you guys give participants some home exercise gear. We do this process.

 

Tash Weddle (20:43.758)

I give them exercise bands and anchors and workouts that they can do with that. then, you know, so hoping that they'll continue that habit at home. It's very like minimal in the sense of, you know, but what you can do with a single exercise band is pretty amazing. I was training for my kettlebell cert when I went to Costa Rica for a vacation and I just took a band, set of bands and I was like, my gosh, these workouts were harder than the kettlebell workouts I was doing before.

 

you

 

one of my workouts that I've done and I think I shared I love rowing. I love kayaking canoeing just rowing general and and one of the programs I did we would row for you know 20 minutes and then we'd get off and we'd do band work or free weights or whatever but those bands that rotation on your shoulders sometimes my goodness it's more of a workout than doing free weights.

 

So it's like a new set of muscles that is being introduced when you use those bands.

 

And you know the thing about bands, people think, that's not fancy enough for me but they have what's called variable resistance which means they get harder because of the stretch of the band where a normal free weight exercise would be easier. And what that means is that they're great for preventing injuries, they're great for older clients starting them out so you're less likely to be injured using bands.

 

Tash Weddle (22:10.35)

Now we don't just use bands here. We have women who are deadlifting and bench pressing and all the things, but they have to progress and earn the right to get there. We want to do it safely. And not everybody gets there, but everybody does get beyond from where they started.

 

Right. I love that. And you're doing it safely too. Yes. Starting off small. So what's next? What's next for for for new beginnings?

 

You know, if you'd have asked me that question last year, we'd be talking about how we would like to expand into other locations, like community centers and churches and libraries, which we are in some of those. We do have satellite locations and libraries and churches and family resource centers, and even possibly trying to go into rural areas. But right now,

 

with fundraising and federal, we don't receive federal funding, but we're seeing some downstream cuts and we're from, and from corporations, we're seeing cuts. So it's like, we're kind of just this year right now, we're just trying to improve the quality of what we serve and to really try to keep these women engaged and progressing for an entire year and collecting our data and just how can we improve what we're already doing for this next year or two? And then we'll talk about expanding. I mean,

 

And it's just, you know, we're still a very small nonprofit. Yeah, we serve hundreds of women a year and we actually save money. I don't think there's a lot of nonprofits that can say they actually save money in future health care costs. But being so small, it's hard to go from what's called a micro level nonprofit to regional, right? It's just all the pieces that have to be in place. But, you know, we're starting to think about that.

 

Jason and Mindy Hoover (23:55.126)

Right, but you're also in a really weird place right now in the US when it comes to just the dollar and how far everybody can stretch it, corporations and individuals. So I think everyone's acting a little bit more conservatively. So I love that you're owning that and going, what can we do within ourselves right now until everything kind of picks back up? So I think that's we've heard that from a lot of people going, know, there's cuts everywhere. What can we do?

 

just to keep trucking until we get through this barrier here. now saying that, you guys do various things throughout the year to raise your funds as well as for your profit side. So I'd love to hear what you guys have scheduled, what you guys do continuously or annually to get that funding up.

 

So we do have two major fundraising events.

 

Spirit of Wellness luncheon is on October 2nd and that will be at Hillwood Country Club this year and we are having Candice Storey-Lee, the Vanderbilt Athletics Director will be our keynote speaker for that. And you also get to hear from some of our clients who've gone through the program and their experience about that as well. And then we have a Bourbon and Bubbles event, which I know it's like what an oxymoron to have bourbon when you guys are all about health, but we say that we will do whatever we have to do to raise money. And so that's in the nation.

 

at 1410 is where we had that last year and probably will again and that's in the spring April to April and that's bourbon tasting and an auction a live auction.

 

Jason and Mindy Hoover (25:28.3)

Hey, got to get both sides, the luncheon people and the bourbon. No kidding. Bourbon and bubbles. I like that. It's neat. So with the economy the way it is, and you're just trying to, like you said, of refine, make things better. And I know you're kind of holding back, but long term, what's your vision?

 

In the evening,

 

Tash Weddle (25:58.488)

My dream.

 

Your dream. dream. What's your dream?

 

that every major city and even minor towns have a place for women to go to build that community with each other, to get strong together, to lift each other up and receive that guidance and coaching and how to be strong and to be taught that it's okay to be strong.

 

I say that because I just can't imagine. I grew up 70s and 80s and had I seen my mom lifting weights, how that would have changed? I ended up in athletics anyway, but think of so many people. If you saw your mom get in that gym and deadlift, how would your life have been different? Or if you saw her cooking healthy because she cared about getting stronger, not being skinny, getting stronger, how would that change your relationship around food and your body?

 

And just to understand that women are the backbone, really, of our communities. They make a lot of the decisions in the house. They spend a lot of time with the children. They are shaping our futures. I think it seems like, just fitness and nutrition. No, it's not just fitness and nutrition. It's life changing. And it really is, from the inside out, life changing. Cycle breaking. And builds that self-confidence like nothing else.

 

Jason and Mindy Hoover (27:24.814)

That's what I was going to say. sure it, you know, especially those that are having financial struggles, confidence is overwhelmingly needed.

 

I live a very stressful life sometimes. running two businesses but some days my workout is the only thing I really had true control over that day and it was the highlight. I don't know what I'd do if I didn't have that.

 

Sure. You know, I mean, just from somebody who work well has worked out about five or six days a week. And then I went through injury, still going through that and being limited. It really affects you like your endorphins, like you're used to that getting up and working out every day. And then all of sudden you don't. I mean, I feel the difference. So

 

I completely get not these women showing up and they've had a bad day or whatever else and they go in and they work out. Like you said, you have control over what's going on in your life in that moment. You are building stronger. You are building that confidence. I just did that. It's like the only thing that you're really doing for yourself, especially as a mom. so I know I miss it. I can't wait. I'm able to get back to it, but it's

 

I think it's so important. I grew up in the eighties and nineties, you know, with the Kate Moss and the just limit your diet. And if you pinch an inch, your fat, I can't even tell you how many times I heard that. And, know, the anorexia era, you know, going through that time period, it was literally don't work out because you'll look bulky and athletic. You need to look bony. So I

 

Jason and Mindy Hoover (29:07.046)

love that we were in a place in America where the athletic build is actually respected now. And like my daughter was able to grow up in a completely different era than I did. so it's, I think it's changed a lot. think we just need to keep pushing for it. And like you said, equal opportunity that anybody can do that and not just the upper middle class and higher, you know, cause that's pretty much who's all been able to afford it. mean, so I love it. I applaud what you do and

 

and that you have big goals. I think that's the most important thing is to, we're both huge goal setters, so we respect that. dreamers. And dreamers, so we're gonna like, what's on that dream board? What can I do that's even better? So I love that. So tell us, how can our audience get involved?

 

Okay.

 

Tash Weddle (29:57.046)

Yeah, so.

 

If you know of women who would benefit from the New Beginning Center, it's not a weight loss program. It's a health and fitness program transformation opportunity. Spread the word about us. Just giving the word out. Donations are always welcome. Attend our fundraising events. Or if you're a woman who's interested in wanting to be stronger, fitter, and healthier yourself and would like to train at TMB Fitness, then check that out.

 

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And if are you looking for any strength coaches to help as well?

 

We are always looking for good coaches. We pay our coaches, but we want women. We really would like women coaches who have the passion for it. I'd say that a lot of personal trainers in town don't get a chance to work with our population that we're serving. And so to have that opportunity, it's like, it's so fun. They're so fun and so grateful.

 

Jason and Mindy Hoover (30:49.11)

make some film.

 

Jason and Mindy Hoover (31:07.98)

So how would a woman that this is of interest and can't afford it, how would she go about getting started?

 

and can afford it. Sorry, she would reach out to us at the New Beginnings Center, www.thenewbeginningscenter.org and fill out the questionnaire and somebody will reach out to her and find out, know, what's her health like, you know, what's her availability, which one of our seven classes can she fit into, you know, and just we'll get her going.

 

or can't.

 

Jason and Mindy Hoover (31:48.514)

That easy. That is easy. Perfect. I love it. I appreciate what you are doing in this community. It is very much needed. Thank you. really is. And, do you do rowing by the way? Do y'all have rowing? do some rowing. She was big on rowing for quite some time.

 

We have a rower.

 

Jason and Mindy Hoover (32:17.016)

Well, this has been an absolute joy. It really has. And like I said earlier, I haven't heard of a business model like this. I'm sure there's some out there, but this is, it's brilliant. And I'm glad you made that major leap because I'm sure that was a big time move for what you, you know, going from the, the universities and taking this on. But I'm sure you are feeling

 

the impact. I'm sure you have a lot of stories of women that you've helped and those nourish your own soul.

 

and worth it for sure.

 

yeah. All right. Well, that is a wrap. So everybody that's listening, thank you very much for tuning in. And please go to the new beginnings center dot org and we'll have that on the the recording so you can go to that link. And from there you can donate, you can volunteer. And are you able to sign up for the scholarship as well there or is that more in-house?

 

So there is a calculator that someone can enter their income and household member number and it will tell them if they owe anything or not.

 

Jason and Mindy Hoover (33:38.594)

love it. All right. Well, Tash, thank you so much for what you do. I love your heart. I love what you're doing in our community. And we'll dream with you that this will continue to grow. Right now in this economy, this is just a small road bump at the moment. And we'll get everything corrected. But we'll believe with you that that will reach and expand and help many, many more women because it is needed.

 

and everybody you impact, it's a ripple effect. It helps them, it helps their kids, helps everybody around them. So thank you for what you do. And everybody listening, thank you so much for tuning in to You Matter Nashville. And we just, we love your support. We love you tuning in and sharing with us. And thank you also for sending us messages. Mindy and I really love that and hearing how things are impacting you. Also, we...

 

We do these interviews based on recommendations. Even this one, Milton Bradley referred us to you, right? Yeah. And we loved him as well. But anyway, thank you so much. Y'all have a great day, and we will be back next time. And that brings us to the end of another episode of You Matter Nashville. We hope today's show has left you feeling as uplifted and inspired as we are.

 

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