JUNE 16, 2026 #020 M.SIMPSON/K.ROAN/S.WRIGHT (THE CARING TEAM)

REPLY/COMMENT 

In this episode of Talkin’ Grit, we sit down with K.Roan and S. Wright to talk about the Wright Brothers Caring Team, how it got started, its purpose, and the impact it has on our employees. We discuss the ways team members can get involved, contribute, and support one another through life's challenges. This conversation highlights the heart behind the Caring Team and our commitment to fostering a culture of compassion, connection, and support across the company. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_06 0:00

From the job site to the office, from lessons learned to stories worth telling, this is Talking Grit, brought to you by Wright Brothers. Here's your host, Jared Waldr.

SPEAKER_01 0:19

Hello everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Talking Grit. And uh you're getting exclusive Wright Brothers content. This is for the company. Continue to tune in and just hear all things Wright Brothers as we continue to have these conversations. We got a great conversation today with Steve Wright and Kelly Roan. And Mitchell, we're gonna be talking about the carrying team. And it's personally one of my favorite aspects of this company. Let's let everybody know. If you're not aware, hopefully you are, but um, this is a piece of the company that you need to know about because it really sets us apart from so many other companies that are out there. And uh let's just get into this conversation because it's gonna be a good one.

SPEAKER_03 0:59

Yeah, Jared, thanks for leading us off there. You know, the thing about the carrying team is I think it really exemplifies our culture, right? You know, and I think at the end of the day, the thing that sets Wright Brothers apart from other construction companies is culture. You know, anybody can go out, move a little divid of dirt, put some asphalt down, you know, pour some concrete, weld some pipe, do whatever. Okay. But at the end of the day, what makes our company different and what I'm proud of is our culture.

SPEAKER_01 1:33

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 1:33

Right. And the core of that culture, you really see it in the carrying team, right? You see it in the caring team. And it's been around here for a few years. I think it's a fabulous deal. Kelly leads the charge force, Steve had the original idea, and you know, that's what we're going to talk about today. But I want to make one plug to everybody, real quick, about the caring team. You know, those of you all that have been touched by the caring team, fabulous that we've been able to do that. Appreciate the fact you are comfortable enough here at this organization to raise your hand and say, hey, I need some help. Thank you. Thank you for being willing to do that. Those of you all that bring the caring needs up through the caring team, thank you for caring about those that you work with. Okay, that that's a huge deal, folks. Huge deal. And everybody can participate in this. You know, when you sh come to work here at Wright Brothers in your employment packet, you have the chance to sign up for the caring team. You know, some of you all do, some of you all don't. When you come through the door, it's hard to understand what it is. Right. And part of the reason for this podcast today is to celebrate those that have participated in this in whatever spot you've been in. Okay. And I really want everybody to hear. This is a culture thing at Right Brothers about helping out your brother and your sister that you work with every day. After you hear this podcast, if you feel led to participate in the caring team by giving a few dollars every week, hey, reach out to podcast at WBCCI.com. We'll connect you up with our payroll, with our HR department. They can help you out. But at the end of the day, look, we're all in this together. Anyone that thinks that life is easy, that life is great, they tell you that, they're lying to you. Right.

SPEAKER_01 3:24

You know, everybody's got their most.

SPEAKER_03 3:26

We all got problems. We all got problems. And this is Wright Brothers' meager way to step out and try to help everybody, right?

SPEAKER_01 3:36

Yeah. And it's special.

SPEAKER_03 3:37

And it's special. And it's special. So, Steve, lay out to us how you got this idea of the caring team. Great idea. And I remember you trotting in one day and saying, Hey, I got this idea, which is usually how you do. You know, typical Steve fashion, Jared. You know, Steve walks in, he'll say, Hey, I've got this idea. And hurry up and get it done.

SPEAKER_00 4:01

Right.

SPEAKER_03 4:01

Right, right. That's typically right, Kelly, isn't that?

SPEAKER_04 4:04

That does work.

SPEAKER_03 4:05

Kelly and I have been the beneficiaries of this for a long time.

SPEAKER_04 4:09

I don't I don't understand what you're pointing.

SPEAKER_03 4:11

I'm making I'm making a good point. I don't understand what you're pointing at. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So, anyways, you you had this idea. Where did you get it from? How did it start? Lay that out to us.

SPEAKER_04 4:20

Okay, well, if I could back up just to start C12, when I joined that in 2010, my family and and the leadership of the company has always been Christian. But that organization uh made me realize the very first thing out of the book was that this is God's company and you need to run it like it was.

SPEAKER_03 4:44

So to give everybody a little bit of background, C12 is a Christian business leaders association that meets once a month that talks about best practices for how to walk your Christian life in business while also talking about business principles to keep keep you sharp, right? So in it one of the things that they really talk about is the proverb of iron sharpens iron, right, Steve? And you know that's that's one of the things that they they do. So, anyways, keep going, sir.

SPEAKER_04 5:18

Okay. Well, in anyway, in this in the C12 system, they they force you to realize it's God's business and that you need to treat it like that. And quite honestly, once you accept that, it makes the decisions you have to make on every day, a day-to-day level, very simple. You know, it's uh it's like what was the L bracelet? What would what would Jesus?

SPEAKER_03 5:40

WWGD.

SPEAKER_04 5:41

Yeah, sort of like that. It's it's pretty pretty well sums that up. But anyway, that that's a monthly event that's like you say, it's devotional, a small group, not as small as yours, Mitchell, but a small group.

SPEAKER_03 5:52

And you uh Steve's picking on my my church group where I've got 50 different couples in it.

SPEAKER_04 5:58

Yeah, bigger my church. But anyway, the enough of that. The uh and you and you you meet once a month and they have uh business things and and uh it's MBA level business stuff too that some of us had not been exposed to.

SPEAKER_01 6:15

So quite every other what we've had a lot of leadership also go through this since then, haven't we?

SPEAKER_04 6:21

A lot of people have been exposed to it in the organization because we believe in rolling that culture down. I mean, K Kelly had been was in it for years in a a key player's role. But uh you know, the every other year they have a a meeting where they invite uh the members from all over the country or all over the world now to uh to uh to a two or three day event. And that's how the caring team came to be in 2017 in San Antonio, I believe it was. It was. Um it we Loanne and I and several others went to the to the event, and there was a gentleman named Peter Fry Frisel. Help me say that name. Peter Frisel. Anyway, he he had was one of the original materials, it was a little book that they gave us. And if you if you look on the back of our company business cards, there is our core value statements on the back of it. And his he was a gentleman, his business was they make screen cloth. For those of you that have been around the crushers, it's that stuff you lay on your belly and get really, really nasty to change. But that's his business was to make the the screen cloth that sizes the rocks that go through the screens after you crush them. And and we had actually done business with him, and I didn't realize it many years, yeah, in 30 years ago on a project out of South Carolina. And but his speech was about he did not understand how many people in his business were hurting. That he he was he thought he had done his part if he provided work for them, and they did it, and he paid them and stuff, but he didn't realize that that there's so many of life's circumstances that just cause a lot of a lot of a lot of heartache grief. You know, you anyway, and he was amazed at the statistics, how many it was. So he created a caring team. He came up with the model that we used, and his his story was really impressive about. I mean, Kelly can tell a bunch of stories. I've you know, they're all I get too emotional listening to some of them. But it's just amazing people that you see every day and know how how much they can be hurting and you not realize it. So that's part of what we should do as uh your your Christian principles should allow you to come near your neighbor to help them. And so that's what we wanted to do.

SPEAKER_01 8:54

So you know So you heard this presentation?

SPEAKER_04 8:57

I heard the presentation, and then we I thought we got to do this.

SPEAKER_01 9:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 9:02

That's what we're what we're need what we need to be doing. So that's when I came home, and as Mitchell said, Hey, I got an idea, y'all go to work. Pretty excellent. And K Kelly, Kelly stepped up and has done such a beautiful job of of leading, leading the effort from she was willing to read the book and meet with the people and study it and figure it out, and has led it beautifully ever since. So, you know, the I judge how well things go by how little I know about it. No news is good, news. That's exact it's exact it's a hundred percent correct. I think Mitchell will will agree with that. The less you hear about it, probably the better it's going.

SPEAKER_03 9:40

And uh I would second that.

SPEAKER_04 9:42

So if if that's the case, it's a very well-run organization.

SPEAKER_05 9:46

One of the things that he came back with that impressed me, or he impressed upon me, was one in four people are actually going into crisis, in crisis, or just coming out.

SPEAKER_02 9:58

Wow.

SPEAKER_05 9:58

And at that point, our company was 400 people strong. So that meant a hundred people were at some point of the spectrum in crisis. And he only knew of one, and we all know that one was me, and that was, you know, that meant 99 other people had something going on in their life that he didn't know about. Wow. And so that's how it kind of all started. And then we did you, you know, he he played a major role in the caring team in the beginning, and Mitchell and Penny and Matt Arp were our original vision team, and they put a lot of hours in on what has now become the caring team. And that leads us kind of into our first meeting, which was in April of 2018. And that team was voluntole. We sent it out a couple of months before, said we need somebody, and everybody, you know, sent one person. So they're geographically spread out and they're also within our company groups. There's someone that represents every area.

SPEAKER_01 11:05

And at that point, were people like, wait, we're we're doing what?

SPEAKER_05 11:08

They had no idea. I mean, literally, I mean, you can you can imagine the Brian's and Chris's and Wendells of the world said, Hey, you're going to this meeting at the corporate office. I have no idea. Just go, you know, because no one really knew, right? And so and I and one one guy from Georgia didn't even show up on time because that's how kind of not important it was, you know. They were in the middle of of building, you know, this was April, this is spring, this is let's get started. You're working. And he didn't come. But the fantastic part of that is that person, you know, when he did come, you know, whatever, and he he didn't know what he was there for, but he started listening, and he's the one that brought the first need to the team.

SPEAKER_01 11:57

Wow.

SPEAKER_05 11:58

And it was something that he saw the night before at his job site. And so and that became the first activity that we did. Now we did not go into that day thinking we would have an activity. But he was listening and he's like, wait a minute, I just want to share something. And, you know, we ended up, you know, there was, you know, he pulled on our heartstrings a little bit because here's this guy, he's got a flat tire. Guy's leaving his trailer, it's it's dusk, and there's a car seat in the back, and all four of those tires didn't look great. And he's like, you know, he's gonna go, and there's gonna be a child in that back seat, and that's not safe. And so, you know, that was our first activity. We bought tires. I saw the receipt the other day, $598. Wow, you know, so that was the first one.

SPEAKER_03 12:42

So over the years, you know, you started April of 18. You had no idea what you were doing, right, Kelly?

SPEAKER_05 12:49

None.

SPEAKER_03 12:50

How many people were on the carrying team at that point in time?

SPEAKER_05 12:53

The original team was 13 people.

SPEAKER_03 12:55

13 people.

SPEAKER_05 12:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:56

Have you kept the team as that 13?

SPEAKER_05 12:58

We go between 12 and 14, yeah. Um, it it it has depended just with different moves and things like that. Right now we have 14 people.

SPEAKER_03 13:07

Okay. And what what areas of the company do they represent today?

SPEAKER_05 13:13

So we've got, you know, Western North Carolina and then Carolina. Yep. And then we have Alabama and Georgia kind of together. We have Chattanooga. So always have someone with safety. We we learned that early with Lindsay Burke. He was on the first team, and that, you know, they see so many people. We always have someone from the shop. Yep. Always have, you know, we usually have a north and a south wig.

SPEAKER_03 13:38

Yep.

SPEAKER_05 13:39

And so it's it's every business. We have someone with paving, absolutely. And, you know, we like to try to keep someone in HR because they too touch more people and can answer our questions too. How long has this person been here? That kind of thing, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03 13:56

Yeah. So I mean you're you're trying to spread it out where there's a real impact across the whole company where everybody's represented. You know, that this is this is Wright Brothers' way of trying to have a good U.S. House of Representatives, right? Right, absolutely. That's how we tried to do it.

SPEAKER_05 14:13

That's right.

SPEAKER_03 14:14

And one of the key things that we did when we started out was hey, nobody in leadership is going to be on the caring tune. That's right. Right. So you've never had anybody in leadership on the caring tune.

SPEAKER_05 14:29

In executive leadership.

SPEAKER_03 14:30

Executive leadership.

SPEAKER_05 14:31

Yeah. Okay, so we do have, you know, our foreman and yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 14:36

But but there's nobody, nobody from the right family's ever been on it, right?

SPEAKER_05 14:40

Not in the second generation. We have had third generation.

SPEAKER_03 14:44

Okay, so Steve, Cindy, Penny. No. They're excluded.

SPEAKER_05 14:50

Right.

SPEAKER_03 14:51

I've been excluded. Yes. Wendell's been excluded. Touchdown, Jeff, Brian, you know, Lucas, all of all of us have been excluded. And why why do we do that, Kelly? Why do we do that?

SPEAKER_05 15:05

Well, I think it's I think it's for a couple of reasons. First, we really want it to be peer-based.

SPEAKER_02 15:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 15:10

You know, and you know, as much as I love and respect all of those people that you just mentioned, sometimes they don't have the understanding of real world stuff. Can I say that? Yeah. I just did.

SPEAKER_04 15:25

You did.

SPEAKER_05 15:28

You know.

SPEAKER_04 15:29

You should have seen the stinka, too.

SPEAKER_05 15:32

But but sometimes that happens. So and and I think the evolution of the team, and you know, it used to just just be the team. Now that it's, you know, several years old, we have those. It's fun, I shouldn't say fun, but it's it's neat to see that the superintendents now come forward for their people. I mean, there's a belief now, you know, caring has crept into the culture. It was always there, but now it's like a thing.

SPEAKER_03 15:59

Well, and you know, I ask you that question to get your perspective. I know Steve and I, we've talked about this. You know, at the end of the day, we didn't want everybody to think that it was something that we were driving. Right. You know, we wanted everybody else to have their skin in the game. It didn't need to be people thinking, hey, Wendell's pet's getting taken care of, hey, Mitchell's buddies getting taken care of because of who they are. You know, this was set up for everybody to understand that we all got skin in the game. We're all together, and you know, we need to take care of one another.

SPEAKER_01 16:43

Right. Well, and and just the simple fact that, you know, somebody in leadership is gonna hear less by default than guys that are on the same crew together. Yeah. There's there's gonna be a little bit more knowledge of what somebody's going through and they're gonna talk a little bit more freely. You know, there's gonna be a a different knowledge, plus it's a way for more people to step up and have a deeper role in affecting the company, which is awesome.

SPEAKER_03 17:08

We got a bunch of leaders at this company and they need to have the opportunity to lead. Right. So, Kelly, the way that we fund this, you know, I made the plug for people giving money through payroll. Can you just speak to that a minute? You know, we have employee dollars that come in. How does that look? What does that look like?

SPEAKER_05 17:27

Yeah, so every week, those that have chosen to give those that have signed up, you know, it comes right out of their checks. And then once a month, I see how much that is. Wright Brothers matches up to five thousand dollars a month. Yep. We've made our match since I think spring of twenty-two. Yep. Every every month. And then, you know, we do throw our pitches out for those that aren't giving. Yep. I think our goal is it sixty-five percent, or it's to get to seventy, I think.

SPEAKER_03 17:58

Yeah. So right now we have a little over sixty percent of the company that gives every week. Wow. And, you know, it's a culture thing. We would love for everybody to participate, everybody get on board and us inch that up a little bit. Yeah. Just so because we're helping one another. So over the years, Kelly, you know, everybody gives five dollars, ten dollars, fifteen, twenty dollars a week, you know, sixty percent of the company, and then the cut and then the company itself matches up to five thousand dollars a week a month, right? How many total dollars have we been able to pull together to give?

SPEAKER_05 18:37

Employees have given about six hundred and fifty thousand.

SPEAKER_03 18:40

Awesome.

SPEAKER_05 18:41

And then the company match has been about four just over four hundred thousand.

SPEAKER_03 18:46

So we're right total million dollars?

SPEAKER_05 18:49

Over a million dollars. We've actually had five hundred and forty-three activities, totaling a hundred a million eighty-nine thousand dollars that have gone out.

SPEAKER_03 18:58

A million eighty-nine thousand dollars went out. So how many activities do you say again?

SPEAKER_05 19:02

Five hundred and forty-three.

SPEAKER_03 19:03

Holy cow, it's a lot.

SPEAKER_05 19:04

Yeah, it is now. You know, those are those are spread. I mean, obviously it's employee heavy and then families and then communities. Yep. Because we do try to we try to keep the the pie kind of not even, but we don't want to, we don't want to overgive in any of the categories.

SPEAKER_03 19:24

Yeah, but you're going off the biblical principle of Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria. That's just you know, where you at, the next circle, then the next circle. That's what you're trying to do. And that's what you've modeled that after. So give us some ideas of what the carrying team's given to. What what are some stories here, Kelly, to show us what the carrying team's about, some examples. I see it in your face. Try not to cry while you're doing this.

SPEAKER_00 19:53

The tears are already forming. I noticed that as soon as we started talking.

SPEAKER_03 19:57

But you know, it's important for everybody, you know. I think it's I've heard it from the guys and the gals that have been on the carrying team that it's a blessing to see what it does, right? And the whole organization doesn't see that all the time. So that's right. I'd like to give you the platform here for the next minute or two a few minutes to kind of just lay it out to everybody about what are some of the things that your dollars that you've contributed, what have they done? And they've they've done some good. They've done some good. So good. So what's that good, Kelly?

SPEAKER_05 20:29

I just got a letter the other day and it was a thank you. And it was someone outside of of our organization, but they're working with the JV over in Asheville, and they had a devastating house fire, somebody that worked closely with us. And they were so surprised that we first had the team, and second, that someone would feel strong enough to bring it to us. And that, you know, there was a committee that voted and we wrote the check. And, you know, and that was just within a few days. You know, it doesn't, it doesn't take a long time. I don't have to go through the portal and nothing has to get approved. You know, once that team, I can write the check and it's done. And so it's it's those kind of things that I mean, I don't I there is pride in it. But, you know, you read those letters and you're you just are reminded how blessed we are to have the team, to have Wright Brothers, to have the leadership that we have, that that we can do these things. But some of the other stuff that we've we've helped with with our own employees, I love the hearing aid story. You know, here's this guy that, you know, has has just markedly become antisocial. He's not having lunch with anybody. He's, you know, kind of staying to himself. And then the superintendent realized why. And it was because he couldn't hear. He he couldn't join in the conversation anymore. So it was a guy on the road. He would just go back to his hotel room at night and sit by himself. We got him the hearing aids. He's not only safer, but he's happier. He's back in, you know. immediately back into his social circle. You know, we we have guidelines. One of the ones is that we don't help with, you know, bail or legal fees normally. Well we blew through that one and helped someone, you know, become help with legal fees to become a citizen of the US. You know, a year later it took it took a year and a half maybe, and we got pictures of his swearing in ceremony.

SPEAKER_00 22:24

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_05 22:25

And so that was, you know, that that's that's amazing. I I I get the holy bumps just thinking about that one. You know, here in the community a 12 year old had a service dog unexpectedly passed away. Those things are expensive, you know, and somebody brought it to us. It was a a neighbor a couple of doors down. They knew the need and we were able to help.

SPEAKER_03 22:46

How much is a service dog?

SPEAKER_05 22:47

I mean it is I think it's close to what's a hundred thousand dollars. So I mean we just made it. Oh my God Yeah, because of all the training and all of that. Wow. You know? And and you know there's, you know, they could get grants or whatever to help with that, but you know, they still needed they needed some help they needed some help with it. You know this is the sixth year that we've done the the um the summer camps for Wright brothers kids and grandkids and godchildren and whatever. And this this year we sent 18 to overnight summer camps where we are sending them. And so that's been really well received. That's that's a good one. So there was a guy actually we've done this twice but the one that I'm thinking of just four years ago was was out on the streets and you know he was heavily addicted to drugs and he got a job he's working for us. We helped him with his dental bills so he doesn't have that reminder of the past anymore. Wow. You know, he can smile freely now and you know he's he's at work every day. And I mean literally he was on the streets waiting to die. Wow. And he tells that story. You know his life these are the things that you know not all of them are as you know not every one of them will make you cry. Sometimes we're doing some other things but it's just life circumstances that you know if we all really do look in the mirror we've all been there or been around it you know and it and it's not just you know it's not just our our hourly folks it things hit everybody and I don't know it's it's as fun as subcontracts are it's my favorite part of my job is is the is the caring team.

SPEAKER_01 24:34

Well it's just it's kind of wild you know I never envisioned you know working for a construction company that like in seeing this side of of Wright brothers you know wasn't fully aware and then you start digging deeper and you see all these things and you know the the stuff you're laying out there the way that lives are being affected and assisted and helped I mean it's it's ministry. And I come from church world background and I see construction company reaching people a lot of times more than a lot of churches in felt need kind of ways and being able to react and to oftentimes meet people at some pretty low points and help them get back on their feet and care for them. You know that's that's reaching out you know it's it's it's our own arm of missions work really you know it's it's pretty phenomenal.

SPEAKER_03 25:31

Yeah it 100% is and I I just I go back to the beginning of the conversation you know we can be like any other construction company but at the end of the day our culture is what differentiates us. And the caring team exemplifies that and it helps all of us to do our little part of it. Right. Right. So you know Kelly thanks for everything you've done over the years to make it go.

SPEAKER_05 26:02

And thank you for let uh letting me do it.

SPEAKER_03 26:04

I mean you've you've been the facilitator you've been the champion of it you've made it happen and you know Steve you and your family I mean thanks thanks for being willing to contribute to the deal. You know you don't have to do that. So I appreciate that.

SPEAKER_04 26:15

Well you're welcome. I think you know at the end of the day we can't take any of this with us.

SPEAKER_03 26:20

Right.

SPEAKER_04 26:21

You know all these bulldozers when we're gone are just still going to be sitting here and we the we need to I feel so good to know that I believe we're making an eternal impact on people which is what we're charged to do as as believers. You are it's your job to care for your your neighbor as yourself.

SPEAKER_01 26:44

Absolutely well and you know starting work here you know I when you you know I was given the opportunity like hey you want to contribute to the the caring team I didn't know what it was at first and was just like well explain that to me and it's you know everybody's pitching in helps out you know helping people I was like yeah sure you know and you know spent years contributing and then you never know when it's like oh my goodness I need help you know and so someone that's been a recipient of help from the caring team when my grandfather died suddenly was having a simple procedure and the doctor nicked his heart and you know it was just one of those things you know just all of a sudden and my family lives in Washington State and you know it was one of those deals where at that moment I I couldn't get out there without help and the caring team stepped up and said hey we're gonna help you and I can't tell you how much that meant to me and to the rest of my family to be able to be there in just a really rough moment but to be able to be with with family and and then also speak at my grandfather's funeral you know like I I remember thinking in the moment I was like there how how how is this going to work? Because you you can't prepare for things and then to realize that there's a company that has your back that's helping you is just is is incredible. So I mean I'll be the first one to say thank you to to everybody that gives and if you're not giving why not you know throw throw a little something in there one you're helping people too you never know when when something might come up because it's life and life's messy but the wonderful thing is is there is the system set up within Wright Brothers to to assist and to help and it's from a heart of love. And you can't you can't put a price tag on that I mean it's it's it's incredible. So thank you guys for setting that up thank you Steve for listening to the Lord in that moment and saying you know what we can do that and Kelly putting in all this you know putting in the work so incredible.

SPEAKER_04 29:07

Well Jared it all comes when I didn't skip the meeting you know the that'll preach right there right your your other your other benevolent activities at ATS all started when Scott Elam and I decided not to go down to this to the uh cigar store where and buy some Cuban cigars in Toronto instead we went to listen to this thing if if you don't think you have a drug a drug problem in your company you're not looking. Yeah well I don't want to hear that but uh but we came away away from that with the what's now AT the bridge.

SPEAKER_01 29:46

And it's always easier to not do things right yeah and but then you you might miss a moment that could really mean something. That's a hundred percent true right there.

SPEAKER_03 29:54

Yeah man 100% well Kelly Steve y'all got anything else to add here about the caring team?

SPEAKER_04 30:02

No I'm just uh so proud of Kelly the leadership the way everybody's stepped up I mean the the family's always been willing to help but before the carrying team you had to know somebody to get somebody if you didn't know you know your supervisor in the field didn't have a connection to a family member there was no there was no set program and this is so much better because first off you don't need to know you just need to help you need to do your part no matter who it is or what it is. Yeah and so I it was a it was it's a much much more complete and appropriate system to be able to help whosoever you need to.

SPEAKER_05 30:47

And just two things one is it's not always money you know we also refer to different resources the EAP that kind of stuff and then the employee assistance program. Yes yes and then I liked what Jared said if you're not giving why so just let me know if you want to and then also if you are interested in being a caring leader. You know the the terms are for every two years so it may not be available right now but I can put you on the list and and and then over the next few years you can get on and and see what it's like from this side because you know as they say it's better to give than to receive and you really do. Uh you really do your your heart gets filled.

SPEAKER_03 31:33

Yeah you get more out of it than what you put into it.

SPEAKER_05 31:36

Absolutely yeah it's a couple of hours a month maybe you know mostly emails so it's not it's not a huge time suck but it really really is gratifying.

SPEAKER_01 31:45

It's high impact.

SPEAKER_05 31:46

It really is yeah so thank you.

SPEAKER_03 31:50

And thank you. Well Jared with that I think we can wind this one up.

SPEAKER_01 31:53

Let's wind it up so give and if uh if you want to get involved in giving you can email us at you know podcast at wbccci.com or probably just even you know contact the office get with Kelly and and and be part of an incredible thing that that is part of the fabric and the culture of our company. And thank you guys so much for sharing about what the caring team is. So now now you know and now that we're putting this out there you know let's let's all be responsible. You know even if it's a a couple bucks a week come on it's blessing somebody else it's picking each other up so let's get involved and make this a deeper part of Rat Brothers culture. That's gonna do it for Talking Grit this time around have a safe day and uh we'll see you next time.

SPEAKER_06 32:42

That's gonna do it for this episode of Talking Grit. Thanks for listening and thanks to everyone out there putting in the work day in and day out. If you liked what you heard be sure to follow the show and share it with someone who knows the value of hard work. We'll catch you next time right here on Talking Grit